Age is such a curious thing, in the tricks it plays to structures, beings life once thought to be immortal. It chips away at stone, converts the Earth and messes with the mind. Perhaps the greatest demon one can face in a lifetime, that all creatures face, is time. Time which has brought us so much, and taken away so much more. The true killer we should all fear.
The vampiress steps echoed loudly. Extended, slender heels breaking sound harshly against that stone floor. Each step bouncing from one wall to the next, locked in an infinite dance until it’s origin fell lost in its travels. Up, through, and out. An old church long since forgotten by man, now sitting alone to surrender it exists to the will of only one. Time.
How surreal it felt to walk down the isles like she did in a time long since past. A time where she’d surrendered herself and all her wickness to a being of the mind and lived out a life within the monastery. I retreat lost amongst thick woods and high mountains, hidden from the world and yet immersed in it. The true beauty of life could be found here, she’d ascended within this walls and now she stood here once more. Turning corners and walking up slippery steep steps, an older and more experienced woman.
Here, her blonde hair and turbulent eyes were but a painting. Here, only her intent mattered, only her belief. That she didn’t believe in what the others sisters did, she dares not say, but how she clung on to ideas every cold night... Her room was the same as she’d left it. Though void of any simple furniture, the wood, and straw having deteriorated long ago, the stones looked almost exactly the same... and the smell.
Long lashes fluttering shut with the deep intake of fresh air, riddled with the coarseness of salt and yet that hidden aroma of rosemary could always poke through. Sun reached out, touched a pale hand to the withered shape of a window in the stone, and sighed. ❝Im seka va krorr kaas osoem, omd vram es cukak. I ruva aeuir kuir rakoemk iiks ok ksrums.❞ With that, the she-vamp gripped the ends of her cloak tightly and left. No longer dabbling in nostalgia. It is time to return to the present.