[Comprehensive British and American] vampires modern daily life

When the first snow fell on Corinth this year, and the old king was dying, Celia took Aro and Didymi by his bedside, holding her breath, and listened to his weak voice carefully enjoining him to do this. The last relative in the world, at the end, a tear flowed down from his chaotic eyes, and he raised his hand, as if waiting for someone to hold it.

Didemi lay on the side of the bed, and supported the generous palm of the King of Corinth with her two hands.

King Corinth smiled and murmured, "Eunice, my daughter, you are here."

Didymi blinked her big eyes and looked at her father.

And Eunice, who was being talked about by her father, was sitting on the roof of her father's bedroom. Although she was not standing beside her father's bed, she could hear her father's words more clearly than anyone else.

For more than half a year, every night, she would sit here, across a roof, silently accompanying her seriously ill father. She could clearly hear every cough, every wheeze, and every hour of the night. Looking at the roses Didymi brought, she whispered her name softly.

This reminded her of Celia's father bringing her up before her mother and son came to Corinth. Her father's face at that time has long been blurred in her memory, but the sound of "Eunice" It coincided with this time, shaking in her mind.

It rarely snows in Corinth, but on the day when the medical officer shook his head and sighed, the whole city was covered with light snow. She could see far, far away, but all she could see was a piece of icy white. She exhaled With a sigh, he rested his forehead on his knees again.

"Father, here I am."

She whispered back.

The funeral of the King of Corinth was extremely solemn, and all the residents of the city walked out of their homes, braved the light snow, to mourn the respected king, and the palace played mourning music, which made people feel sad.

On the day of the funeral, Eunice did not go out. She sat blankly in front of the window of Aluo's bedroom, listening to the mourning and wailing outside, reached out to brush the snow on the window sill, and then picked up an old old Lyre, tried to pluck the strings.

The string sound rang in the empty bedroom, which made her feel a little strange. She froze for a while, bent her fingers slightly, and then played the second syllable.

The lyre is a symbol of Erato, the goddess of poetry, and it is also the musical instrument commonly used by the goddess of song and dance, Tersikere, Dionysus, the god of wine, and Apollo, the sun god in mythology.

When she was very young, her father taught her to play the lyre, sing hymns, and told her how Apollo gave his lyre to his son Orpheus, and how Orpheus used a lyre The qin helped Jason take the golden fleece, and then moved the king of the underworld and the queen of the underworld with the sound of the qin, and brought his wife back to the world from the underworld.

At that time, she liked the story of the Thracian poet Orpheus, and she even fell in love with the lyre, but after a little success, she realized that Orpheus did not bring his wife back from the underworld in the end, just because Looking back before the entrance of the human world, he and his wife were once again separated by yin and yang, and the wife guarded the underworld alone, while he wandered alone in Thrace until he died.

After she knew the ending of the story, she cried and wanted to throw Qin, and it was Ah Luo who followed her closely and hugged Qin.

Later, Arlo learns to play the lyre, and she also learns that no story has a happy ending.

When she heard footsteps, she stopped playing, put the piano aside, turned her head, and saw Ah Luo, who was wrapped in gray Xima Shen, leaning against the door and looking at her.

"I remember you always liked cheerful music," Arrow said.

Eunice just looked at him without answering.

He took a few steps forward, walked up to Eunice, touched the turtle deck of the lyre, and said, "You gave me this lyre back then."

"I didn't realize you kept it," Eunice said.

Ah Luo sat beside her and said, "There are too many things you don't know, sister."

He exhaled and said, "Father told me before he died, to be a competent king of Corinth and not to avenge you."

"He's right." Eunice withdrew her gaze and looked out the window at the white sky.

"Really?" Ah Luo still looked at her closely, "Do you think it's right too, when Leonit ordered you to be buried alive, did you think he was right too?"

Eunice's body trembled slightly, she turned her head to look at A Luo, looked straight into his eyes, and said in a low voice, "As a king, there is nothing wrong with it."

Ah Luo looked at her, reached out and touched her pale and cold cheek, and said, "But as your husband, he is at fault."

Eunice closed her eyes.

"Ever since I received the news of your death, I have thought about taking revenge." Ah Luo leaned forward and rubbed her chin with the top of his head, like a child acting like a baby, "I want to punish him, sister, He must be punished."

The young man said firmly, wrapping her other hand around her hand that had lost its warmth, as if wanting to transfer all of her own warmth to her, she forced a smile, patted the back of Ah Luo's hand, and said: "Just be your king, and I will watch you here."

...Seeing you ascend the throne, go forward indomitably, be revered by countless people, and be engraved on the stone tablet.

After the funeral of the old king, Aro became the new king of Corinth even though there were many criticisms. Eunice stayed in the palace all day, and she could still hear those nagging maids talking about the couple from Athens. The commoner mother and son turned into a phoenix by leaping from a branch, but it is a pity that the eldest princess and the young little princess died young.

Celia is generous and kind, even if she hears some gossip, she doesn't care about it, she just takes Didymi by her side so that she can raise her well.

Eunice also often went to see Didemi secretly, watching the little girl sitting on the stool dangling her two little feet, watching her carefully touch the lyre under the guidance of her mother Celia.

Her feelings towards Didymi were very complicated. When she was still alive, the letters from her father were full of love for this newborn little daughter. Do not leave the father's child.She always thought she was jealous of Didemi, but when she saw the little girl under her father's windowsill who wanted to ask Butterfly if she had seen her sister, she felt like seeing a rosebud that hadn't bloomed yet. , full of love and pity.

When she sees Didymi, she easily thinks of the child in her womb who left early before seeing this world, thinking that if it is born, it will be about the same age as Didymi, and it will also sit on the stool and sway The white and tender calf acted like a baby to her.

Such complicated feelings made her appear several times in front of Didymi out of selfishness.

Every time, before Didymi went to sleep, in just a few seconds, she sat on her window sill in a hazy moonlight, and Didymi would often be surprised, and then grabbed her mother Celia's sleeve and said : "Mom, I saw Artemis again!"

Celia always smiled and stretched out her hand to flick her forehead, and said, "It seems that we Didymi and Artemis are really destined. Do you want to learn how to ride and shoot? I can let brother Aluo teach you in the future."

Didymi also pursed her lips and said, "Brother Luo doesn't come to see me anymore, he must not like me anymore."

"It's nothing, Didemi is the cutest." Celia held the little girl in her arms, patted her on the back gently, and said, "Brother Luo is just too busy, he has to After he finishes his work, he will come over and teach you how to archery and how to play the piano."

Eunice stood outside the window sill, listening to Celia coaxing Didymi in a low voice, she stretched out her hand to grab the fabric on her chest.

Aro was really busy, busy secretly planning a war with Sparta.

Every time he met with the generals, he avoided Eunice, but Eunice could always follow his scent to find them easily, and then received their battle plan verbatim in her ears.

Their first secret meeting was at the Temple of Aphrodite on the Acropolis. Hiding in the dark, she heard the leading old general persuade the young king earnestly: "The Spartans are good at fighting, and The whole people are soldiers, and if we hit it like this, it is like hitting a stone with an egg. King, give up."

"I can give up everything, but this is the only thing." Ah Luo said forcefully, patting the map on the table, "Do you know how many years I have been planning for this thing."

After the generals left, only Ah Luo was left in the secret room with his hands on the table, staring at the map, and the shadows of the lights only showed his shadow, making him look extremely lonely.

Eunice appeared from the shadows, walked across the table, and without looking up, he murmured: "You know, when you had an accident, I asked my father to allow me to go to Sparta to find out the cause of your death, I thought he would agree, he loves you so much, but he refused, he said, Luo, people have to know how to choose, the king is even more. At that moment, my father was unusually hard-hearted. The king is like this, possessing supreme power but being restrained everywhere. At that time, I thought, I can’t do this, after I get power, I can’t do this.”

Eunice just looked at him quietly and said, "You're going astray."

"Who should define it?" Ah Luo raised his head and looked at her, "Are you even going to blame me, sister?"

"I just want to watch you." Eunice sighed, and she thought of what her father said to Celia that day under the window sill, "I don't want your paranoia about me to bring disaster on yourself. "

"I'm not afraid." Ah Luo smiled at her, "As long as you're still by my side, I'm not afraid."

Eunice froze for a moment, then lowered her head.

She heard Ah Luo walk around the table covered with maps, walked up behind her, put his arms around her shoulders, held her tightly in his arms, then lowered his waist, and put his chin on her shoulders .

He was already much taller than Eunice, but he still hung himself on Eunice's body like a child coquettishly, and slapped her ear with his warm breath.

"Before you got married, I once said, let you wait for me for a few more years, and now I'm grown up." Ah Luo said in her ear.

Eunice raised her eyelids, staring in a daze at the dancing candles of the wall lamp on the opposite wall.

you have grown up.

But I am dead.