I collapsed into my bed feeling exhausted from the night. Immediately, I fell asleep.
I dreamed I was walking on top of the castle walls watching the sunrise when I saw a shadow of a person slip from the castle gate undetected. I glanced at the guards who stood stoically still as if they saw nothing.
Walking faster across the wall, I peered down. When the man removed the hood off his head, I realized he was a vampire. A vampire inside the castle walls? Shocked, I jumped off the wall, but truly I floated down.
Curious, I followed the man through the woods away from Fildira's city and into the borderlands where there was a small hut nestled deep in the darkness of the forest.
He entered and I followed him. The man removed his cloak, pausing as he placed it on the rack.
“It isn’t pol
