The next couple of weeks were filled with training during the day and studying throughout the night. I learned that there are endless gifts that vampires could potentially possess. However, there was very little information about what had happened to me in the castle. I learned that it was something called psychometry, where a person touches an object and can see memories play out, but there had only ever been one other vampire that had possessed this gift, so not much was known about it. Of course, with my luck, it was reported that this vampire had died over two hundred years ago, so I couldn't really go to them for help. I also tried to avoid touching things directly that could send me into a memory, as I didn't know what could happen while I was watching it. It all seemed so real when

