[Comprehensive British and American] vampires modern daily life

It has been several days since Eunice arrived outside the Corinthian palace.

She looked in the direction of the royal palace from the hillside where wild roses bloomed outside the city. She could see very far away, carefully seeing the green olives on the olive tree in the yard, and the Corinthian column capitals under the eaves. The finely carved buttercup stems and leaves, as well as the hurried medical officers and maids.

She knew all of these people, but it was only by looking at the traces of time on their faces that she realized that it was several years ago that she left Corinth to marry Sparta.

The wild roses bloomed extremely warmly against the hot midsummer sunshine of the Morea Peninsula. She was covered with a crumpled black robe and sitting among them, like a devil who had struggled in the dark for a long time and inadvertently entered the world by mistake.

She wanted to run down this highland, through the streets and alleys of the city, break into the palace, run to her father's bed, and see this man who loved her and spoiled her for 18 years.

But she was also afraid, the boy she saved in the slums finally looked at her with fear, and the people holding torches and shouting "Kill the monster" reminded her all the time that she was no longer her father The carefree little girl under her knees.

She could only squat on the half slope with her knees in her arms, her chin on her knees, looking at the palace in the distance, silently biting her lower lip.

She will not feel tired, will not feel sleepy, just sit there motionless like a statue, from sunrise to sunset, watching the people in the palace open the windows and sweep the steps in the morning, and then the night falls and the lights are noisy .

On the morning of the third day, another guest ushered in on the hillside full of wild roses.

Eunice had noticed him before he went up the mountain, and quickly choked her throat and hid on the laurel tree on the top of the mountain.

She could clearly see a black-haired young man walking up the hill slowly. He was wearing a gray double-belt Heaton, revealing his muscular and smooth calves. From her angle, he could only see his side face. His long black hair is untied, covering his ears, and he has no beard. You can see his raised eyebrows, high nose bridge, and pursed lips.

This is a very young man, he can even be called a teenager.

When he was walking halfway up the mountain, he stopped, lowered his head, looked at a rose blooming on his waist, and then gently stroked the petals with his hands.

From the moment Eunice saw him, she couldn't help but clenched the branch tightly in her hands.

She recognized him immediately.

This is Ah Luo, her brother Ah Luo.

She looked at Ah Luo who had not seen for two whole days in the palace of Corinth.

The little boy who only timidly pulled the hem of her clothes when he first saw her, the boy who stared at her when she was married, has grown into an adult who can take charge of himself.

She squatted on the tree, covering herself with the dense branches and leaves, watching Ah Luo sitting on the hillside through the gaps in the branches and leaves, silently looking into the distance.

She looked in the direction he was looking, and saw a touch of light blue.

That is the Gulf of Corinth.

The Gulf of Corinth is the most beautiful in the summer sun. The waves roll with silvery foam, reflecting golden light in the sun, rushing up to the dark gray reef wave after wave, washing the moss in the crevices of the reef.

When she was a child, she liked to go to the beach to ride the waves. Ah Luo was too young, so she ordered him to stand far away and not get too close to the sea. The little boy could only sit on the rocks by the sea. Every time she turned her head, she could see him using his hands Resting his chin, he looked at her intently.

He treasured the shells she picked up, and put them in the trinket box Celia had given him, along with the gold bracelets and the jeweled Heaton brooch.

Eunice didn't know this at all, but Celia told her as a joke before she got married.

"Eunice, Luo really likes you as an older sister." Celia said with a smile.

Young people, whether it is love or hate, are extremely strong.

On this day, Eunice and Ah Luo watched the sea for a whole day.

Until the night was getting darker, the light blue was finally dulled by the night, and the rare cool wind of the Morea Peninsula in summer gently blew the wild roses on the hillside, bringing the whispers of summer cicadas, Ah Luo was sitting A day later, I finally got up and walked back along the way I came.

The city of Corinth at the bottom of the mountain was a bustling night scene, and the lights in the city illuminated his way. After walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and turned his head.

He turned his back to the lights of the city, looked at the wild roses all over the mountains, and after a day of silence, he finally said the first sentence: "I'm leaving, and I'll be with you tomorrow."

His voice is no longer immature, warm and deep, it has the charm of a mature man, without losing the clarity of a young man.

He lowered his eyes, and the wind blew the black hair at the corner of his eyebrows. Eunice saw his Adam's apple sliding up and down, and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, but turned his head and walked towards The brightly lit city of Corinth below the mountain.

It was long after he was gone before Eunice jumped from the tree.

She walked to the place where Ah Luo sat for a day before, and lightly touched the petal that he had touched. She could still smell the smell of Ah Luo's blood, which penetrated into her nostrils. Her limbs penetrated through the crevices of her hard skin, the sense of hunger welled up her throat again, the hand stroking the petals turned to strangle her throat, she gritted her teeth and let out a muffled groan.

The next morning it was raining lightly, and there was a thin mist on the mountain. Eunice thought that Luo would not come again, but the second she had this thought, she smelled the familiar smell of blood again.

Sitting on the tree, she saw Ah Luo walking up the mountain again along yesterday's road. He didn't hold an umbrella, and his black hair hanging down to his shoulders was already soaked, and the tips of his hair were still dripping. His face turned pale, he just casually wiped off the water droplets gathered on his chin, and then stood still in front of yesterday's wild rose.

He wore a red Kalimish cloak over yesterday's double-belted Heaton, with his right arm bare, and the arm was paler against the red of the cloak.

He was still silent, with his eyes downcast, unable to see his expression clearly.

And Eunice watched him quietly, enduring the hunger rolling in her throat.

Fortunately, Ah Luo didn't stay for long this time, when two palace guards came in a hurry. They panted, straightened their helmets, and hurriedly said that the king was critically ill, and hoped that Ah Luo would go back quickly.

There was no expression on Ah Luo's face, he just nodded and left with them.

And Eunice jumped down from the tree after they left. Drenched in the rain, she walked to the edge of the mountain, looking at the palace in the city through the rain curtain, clenched fists, nails sunk deep into the palm of her hand in the meat.

In the end, she still gritted her teeth and ran down the mountain, not caring how many tender petals were broken by the corner of her clothes.

The streets and alleys in the city of Corinth haven’t changed much, but she no longer has the heart to appreciate them. She quickly shuttled through the alleys and rushed to the palace. Fortunately, it was raining, and there were not many people on the streets, and no one noticed this man in a black cloak. people.

She deftly climbed over the walls of the palace, bypassing the pillars she was extremely familiar with, like a black shadow that was not limited by speed, coming and going freely in the palace, she dodged several medical officers who came out together, Then he squatted under the window sill of his father's bedroom.

A bush of rosemary was planted under the window sill, and the scent was tender, surrounding her gently. These scents more or less dissipated the influence of Aro's blood on her. She exhaled and was about to stand up. I glanced at my father from the window, but suddenly heard a few coughs.

It was his father's cough.

She paused, and then heard her father's weak voice: "Ah Luo, do you still want to avenge Eunice?"

She opened her eyes slightly, and leaned back against the wall slowly.

The house was quiet for a long time before she heard her father sigh again and say, "Ah Luo, Eunice died of an illness. Birth, old age, sickness and death are beyond anyone's control. You have to accept this fact, and all the people in Sparta are good at fighting, Dolly. You should know how the Asians went south to invade the Morea Peninsula and destroyed the powerful Mycenae...you are so paranoid, how can I trust the country to you..."

However, before King Corinth finished speaking, he was cut off by the voice between a mature man and a young man: "Father, I want to avenge my sister, regardless of whether the ending is good or bad, whether my future is life or death. "

His voice was clanging and his tone firm.

Eunice froze, trembling, touched her cheek.

Her palm touched a patch of warm liquid.

"Ah Luo, how can you do this, can't you let your father rest assured, you still have the country, you still have me, and your sister Didymi!"

She heard Celia crying.

She also heard the young man who was only seventeen or eighteen years old reply: "Mother, I'm sorry, forgive me."

"Sparta unilaterally announced the cause of her death in a letter. I don't believe it. I can't just let her die in an unclear way. I want to seek justice for her."