Hellbound With You (WN)

He just stared at Zeke for what seemed like minutes. However, Zeke just met his gaze head on with none of them speaking to each other. Until Zeres started to move and silently walked past them with Alicia in his arms. His steps were unsteady as though he had not walked for a long a time.

They followed him with their gazes and after a few steps, Zeres halted. He lifted his face and looked at them. His mouth opened and closed a few times without anything being said for a while until after a long pause, he finally spoke.

”I ’m… ” his wretched voice was so hoarse and barely audible, but he continued anyway. Perhaps because he knew that the vampires could hear and understand what he was going to say no matter how inaudible and broken his voice was, ”I ’m taking her back… to the Black Forest… ” he said and then after a few moments of quiet, he disappeared silently along with Alicia. And just like that, they were both gone from sight, causing differing emotions to be felt within the hearts of those who were looking on.

The moment Zeres and Alicia was gone, all the vampires fixed their gazes on Zeke, as if waiting for an explanation or a command.

But Lilith ’s eyes remained fixed on the spot where Zeres stood a moment ago. She could hear Alexander talking in the background, but Lilith ’s attention was fixed on something else, no, someone else – a spirit. She was looking at Alicia ’s soul.

And Alicia seemed to be staring back at her.

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When Ezekiel pulled the sword from Alicia ’s body, Lilith watched Alicia ’s soul left her body. But she did not leave even when the strange lights appeared and seemed to be calling out to her. Lilith watched Alicia ’s soul seemingly talking to something she could not quite see and then she seemed to have made a choice and after staring at Zeres for a long while and then throwing a glance at Ezekiel, Alicia turned her back from that strange light and approached Zeres.

Lilith was shocked at what she had seen. She did not know why she was seeing this. And it seemed that she was the only one who could see it as no one else seems to have any other reaction when they glanced to the same area she was looking at. But all she could come up with was that this must be another one of the many powers that the witch queen has in her repertoire of skills.