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when Adela was watching over him. After
having some more time to speak to Adela, Galechka realized that
they needed to keep him safe as long as they could until he was
strong enough to protect himself.

    Galechka leaned up against the headboard of
her bed reading a book as she waited for the stranger beside her to
wake up. She carefully turned each page by the far top corner each
with her small delicate looking fingers as she reached the end of
each page. Finally, He started to come to; she cocked her head to
towards him to see if he was really coming around or not. She then
laid the book gently down on the table that sat beside her antique
wooden bed. She rolled onto her side facing him with her head held
up with her hand waiting for him to look at her.” Good evening
stranger, “she said with a slightly evil smile upon her lips, “Take
it easy, it seems you wore yourself out in your little tuffle at
the pub.” His sight was very blurry but as time went by this
angelically beautiful woman’s faces came more and more into focus.
She was the most exquisite thing he had ever laid his eyes upon. He
reached out his and she in turn took his in hers and guided it onto
her face and closed her eyes as his hand rested on her milky white
skin that felt as soft as the finest silk. She took a deep breath,
looked at him and said:” I believe it is time we get you fed; you
have to be starving by now.” John just nodded his head not knowing
what to say.

    She stepped out of the bed as eloquently as
ballerina and reached back for his hand slowing pulling and helping
him out of bed. It seemed that he was very weak from the fight or
the three days without food. She tossed her hair as she spun around
keeping her hand in his leading the way out the door and into the
hall way. The floor was made of very old barn wood and the walls of
stone and mortar, having lights that looked like candle holders
every six or seven feet. There was a stairwell that spun into a
half cirlcle leading into a lower level. She led him through the
maze of hallways until they made it to the kitchen that seemed to
be placed in some back wall of the castle. The kitchen had an old
wooden table at the far corner lit by the moon light that was
shining in through the small window. The rest of the kitchen was
very modern; stove counter tops all were very up to date. The stove
had 10 burners and was made of stainless steel not something that
you would not expect to see in an older castle. She motioned him to
take a seat at one of the stools alongside the center island.

    Galechka smiled as she mixed the pancake
mix, she seemed to love preparing food for her unexpected guest.
“Hope your hungry I am making a huge amount; after two and a half
days you should be able to eat a horse,” she jokingly said as she
threw everything together,” I will show you around the castle a
little late, but you can never venture too far away from my side
because it is not safe.” John took a moment before he spoke,” You
mean because you’re all vampires and I am a human?” Galechka looked
astounded, she thought to herself how could he know. So she spoke
up,” How do you know, that we are all vampires?”” Are you not?”
“Why yes, but how did you know?” “I am not sure, it is like I can
just feel you and it just felt to me like you were a vampire, so I
guessed everyone else here had to be also.” Galechka was taken back
by this comment not sure what to make of his assumptions; in some
ways she was relieved that she did not need to break it to him, but
in another it scared her.

    Adela seemed to float into the room with
extreme eloquence that one would expect of from a Royal woman. For
some reason whenever you look at this woman you think of the old
aristocratic royal families from the grand old era. She had grace
in her manner that one could only be born with and not taught by
any matter of fine education. There was an aura of power to her
that over whelmed and made you respect