Aspen
There was a light shining in my eyes, and I blinked it away sleepily. “Mum, its too early, close,” The words died on my lips as my memories came flooding back. The way the two vampires had ripped into me. their teeth puncturing my skin. Their greedy slurps filling my ears. They had been nothing more than animals. And rabid ones at that. There had been nothing remotely human about then as they drank me down.
And the pain, pain and something else. Pain and power. Mine flowing into them. But it hadn’t been a one-sided exchange of power.
I blinked again, swatting away the hand that was shining a torch into my eyes. It wasn’t my mother, but it wasn’t them either. A woman looked down at me. a total stranger. At the feel of my hand making contact with hers she reeled back, hissi
