Lady Victoria was about to go into the White Hart, a voice came out from the shadows. “Well, well, well what’s a pretty lady like you doing out all alone at this hour…?” It was a gnarly voice, one she hadn’t heard before. The voice sent a chill down her spine though. She turned around and could see nothing and nobody behind her or in the street itself. She went to turn back to the white hart door and suddenly something jumped down from the roof and knocked her down. As she recovered and looked up, scrambling for her dagger, she could see a male stood over her, with bared fangs that reflected the moonlight.

She gasped and reached for her dagger, but tis new vampire grabbed her by the foot and dragged her across the floor and quickly into a nearby alleyway. She gritted her teeth and dug her gloved nails into the ground as they scratched at the floor trying to grab anything to use as a weapon. She didn’t know if it was a Hygrace, a Wynter or just a random vampire but had to assume he would kill her. Unfortunately for this vampire, his soon to be rival was inside the tavern nearby.  Victoria’s clothes rubbed against her delicate skin that wasn’t used to any roughness touching it whatsoever, it was deeply sensitive. This caused fabric burns as her clothes dragged across the sharp and uneven floor. The slightest trickle of blood seeped out of the removed top layer of skin, on her knee caps and wrists. She could feel it stinging beneath her clothes.

The vampire had her pinned face down on the ground as she kicked up and wriggled. She reached for the crossbow on her back, the vampire grabbed her wrist and twisted it. She screeched in pain. As her enriched aroma reached his nose, it sent him into a frenzy. He grabbed her by the back of the neck and yanked her up merely by one arm. She reached for the crossbow, he got to it with his other hand and pulled it out of the back of her trousers and threw it to the ground. She reached for her dagger and as she grabbed it, he grabbed her arm to prevent it from slashing him. She could tell he was a seasoned hunter. “I’ve never smelt someone as good as you. I’m going to enjoy this…” He said as he dangled his prey in front of him. He bared his fangs with a wide-open mouth and went to sink his teeth into her neck.