Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess 2 by Pet Torres

We return ed to the main room in the castle. The place was empty, my father and Bizak were not there. Then we stopped in the center of the room without knowing what to do.
    “Where are they?” I asked, looking from side to side.
    “Probably they are resting. If you let them, they sleep all the time.” She smiled.  “A good sleep helps to restore our energies and we ‘vampires’ need too much,” she explained.
    “Where’s ... Eros?” I hesitated to pronounce his name.
    “He is reposing, too,” she said and cast me a suspicious look.
     
    Valeska asked me to accompany her to the other room of the castle. She wanted to show me something. However, she would not tell me what it was.
    We walked in silence through the castle corridor.
    “Make no noise ; we vampires have very acute hearing. We hear any noise at several miles away and hate to be interrupted when we are asleep,” she warned me.
    I did exactly what she said and then we walked softly on tiptoe, as if any person would surprise us at any instant.   She stopped in front of a dark door and I stopped walking behind her.
     
    “Not a word,” I was warned before she opened the door and went inside.
    We enter ed a dark room with no light whatsoever. There were only walls and some objects.
    In the dark I could not exactly see it with any clarity. We stopped in the middle of the room. Valeska looked up at the ceiling and gestured with her head at me. Consequently, I did the same and I looked up at the ceiling just like she did. What I saw amazed me.
    Eros was sleeping with his head down as his body was hanging from his bedroom ceiling . His hands were crossed on his chest.
    At that moment he looked like a bat sleeping with its head down.
    Valeska pulled my arm to her so we left his room at that moment before he could wake up.
    We stopped walking in the hallway, as soon as we got out of Eros's room. I leaned my body against the wall, thinking of that creature with his head down.  Everything he did, in my view, was fascinating.
    “What did you think of how he sleeps?” Valeska asked me.
    “I was surprised. I've never seen anyone sleeping like that...with their head down like a bat.” I honestly answered.
    “You know that’s ‘vampires’ because normal people will never sleep that way,” she said.
    “Sometimes I forget you are ...”
    “Creatures from Darkness,” she interrupted me and completed my phrase with her right words.
    “How did you become a vampire?” I asked her.
    “The right question is… when did your father turn me into a vampire?” she said.

We progress ed toward the hallway while she narrated her facts.
    “I had always been a troubled person. I had never lived well or got along with my parents ... and with my brothers. Then one day ... I decided to leave home ...” she explained.
    “Did you abandon your family?” I asked astonished at her.
    “Yes, I did and I do not regret it. My family mistreated me all the time”.
    Valeska knew how to narrate her version. She described her painful life with her family.
    “I did not have anywhere to spend the night. I was under a tree at an abandoned place ...and then Vincent came out of the darkness and gave me a chance of life I had not had before.” She looked up at the ceiling and smiled at it.
    “ Weren’t you afraid?” I asked.
    “ Of becoming a vampire?” she asked smiling at me and said, “Oh, I love this life.”

Chapter 6
     

I was lying on the hard, cold stone which would be my new bed. I felt uncomfortable. I missed my soft mattress, my pillow and my blanket to cover me from my waist down.
    My discomfort was greatest due to the fact that I had laid down without looking at Eros’s eyes.
     
    Since I came to that palace, I saw him no more. We had no contact after my arrival there, except when I saw him sleeping in the shape of a bat, but this meeting I did not take into consideration.
    I thought about my mother, how she would be in that moment. The homesickness clutched