For some reason, I was calm.
Much too calm for the kind of news I was hearing, I would think. Maybe it just hadn't settled. Maybe I just didn't understand yet. Adalia taking control of me….
No, I knew exactly what that meant.
It's the 'why' factor I was only struggling to decipher.
"Do you remember the last time a vampire took control of you?" Irene said, laying out what I assumed to be the beginning thread of the thoughts and reasons that led to the birth of this… let's say interesting… idea of hers.
I still was unsure what to make of any of it yet, so I just went along with it for the time being.
"Yeah, kinda," I replied. "Details are very fuzzy though. I only remember waking up."
Actually, I remembered more than just waking up. I remember the white void I was in, that freefall weightless sensation of nothingness… the first time I ever encountered the twin Matriarchs. Both of them desperate, one on the verge of madness, the other despair…
