***** The dining room was as cold and dark as the room Nora had woken up in, the table in front of her littered with candles and food. She could smell the faint odour of blood lingering heavily in the air as if it had been there for a while and it made her stomach turn nauseatingly. After they left her alone for hours, a woman came into the room demanding that she get cleaned up and changed and then have some dinner, she would not have complied were it not for the threat of violence and force. It was evening, just past six and the skies outside were covered with dark clouds that gave the appearance that it was going to rain, but it didn’t smell like it and wasn’t accompanied by any strong wind. The sky had not brightened throughout the day and it was not going to the following day, vamp

