And he was right about that. Within two weeks, our numbers had tripled. Twenty fully fledged vampires, as they called themselves, joined our group. They happily worked our lands and helped trade with our neighbouring villages. But most of all, they told us everything we needed to know.
"You did the right thing." Kael told me and Michael after staying silent for far too long. "Odds are at least one of the people downstairs works for the king."
Kael had arrived on the fourth day and has been by far the most helpful. Michael warned all of us not to tell the new people about how we were turned. He gave them some weak arguments as to why, but when I asked him about it he told me it was nothing more than a gut feeling. We needed to keep our heritage a secret for our own sake.
So finding out n
