I landed on the cold, hard stone floor of the chamber very ungracefully. Going from being in the heart of the Vampire Flame itself to the much colder chamber room where the Mistress had summoned the Flame was kind of like walking into the bathroom after a warm shower, but at the same time, I wasn’t complaining, because at least I wasn’t on fire anymore.
I suddenly heard a shrill scream above me and looked up. The Mistress stood nearby, staring at me with her ugly eyes, which were practically bulging out of their sockets now. She was slamming her cane against the basin of the Vampire Flame over and over again, screaming at the top of her lungs.
“No!” the Mistress screamed. “This cannot be! I didn’t work toward this so hard for years just to have a dumb slut jump and ruin everything at the
