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 Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:44 pm
 
"What a pain.... "
Wincing as the chain round his neck suddenly tightened, he gave the offending tree a solid kick with one back hoof, snapping the branch responsible before carrying on. Frowning up at the leaves above, he could feel dawn slowly arriving. He'd been out all night. Again.
"Damnit Mother! I'm too big to be chasing after you!"
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:15 pm
Sated, Vladislav Draculesti walked in the pre-dawn darkness. His belly was full with the meat and the blood from his kill. Blood splatters still lingered here and there on his coat and his chains. Striding through the darkness like that, blood glistening on him and red eyes gleaming above sharp fangs, Vlad cut an imposing figure. Not only did he look dangerous, tonight Vlad felt dangerous. He was a predator. He was a Draculesti.
The bats that always followed him did not disappoint tonight. He could hear the flaps of their wings and sometimes even feel the puff of air as they flew close by him. He mostly ignored them but tonight they seemed to add to the atmosphere of danger and intrigue. "Is there something that you know that I do not, little bats?" Vlad asked them in his native Romanian tongue. He watched while they all fluttered ahead of him. They seemed excited by something. Was there an owl around, perhaps?
In the darkness Vlad's red eyes could see keenly but he saw no owl to menace his winged companions. What was it then that had gotten them worked up?
Vlad's ears pricked. A sound that he hadn't been paying attention to suddenly came to the forefront of his mind. The clinking of chains. Vlad was so used to the sound of his own familiar chains that he hadn't realized that the noise he was hearing was not his own. There was another chained creature out there in the darkness.
"Hush, my friends," he whispered to the bats while ducking into a thick shadow. "We are not alone." He squinted through the darkness. What was out there?
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