[Comprehensive British and American] vampires modern daily life

When Eunice found Marcus, Marcus was sitting on the grass leaning against the rocks. There were several hideous paw prints on the moss on both sides of him, and his fingertips had been dyed dark green. It landed in the gap, and there were gleams of light jumping on his cheeks. His face was expressionless, and only the slightly trembling eyelashes reminded others that he was not frozen into a lifeless stone sculpture.

The place that should have been a mess actually gave rise to a strange tranquility.

Eunice breathed a sigh of relief after seeing no signs of drinking human blood. She jumped down from the tree trunk and landed firmly on the rock that Marcus was leaning against. She simply sat down , Thinking about how to speak to Marcus, fortunately, before she could speak first, Marcus said: "Have you seen Artemis?"

When he said this, he was not as cold and rigid as before, nor was he as frantic as he should be in a state of hunger. Only then did Eunice realize that his original voice was very gentle, with a very soft tone, as light as Catkins flying all over the city in spring.

Eunice was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "That's a character in mythology, how could I have seen it before."

"Some people say that Artemis can shine like me." Marcus said, covered his mouth and coughed a few times, and then laughed, "How ridiculous, to compare a monster like me with a god."

But Eunice, because of his words, thought of Didemi, who had been extremely obsessed with Artemis since she was a child, she frowned, and wanted to ask him if he had seen that eight or nine-year-old girl, he He had already supported the rock, barely stood up, and said in a slightly weak voice: "I'm hungry, do you... have anything to eat?"

This was the first time he had taken the initiative to talk about his hunger as a vampire. Eunice was slightly startled, then nodded and said, "Yes."

After that, Marcus no longer locked himself in the corner room and refused to communicate with other people. He would open the door and walk out to have a brief chat with Aro, or gesture with Caius. .At first, he was somewhat repelled to bite off the necks of humans and suck out blood to satisfy his hunger, but after a long time, he gradually adapted to the vampire lifestyle, and sometimes took the initiative to go down the mountain with Caius to hunt.

But most of the time, he would go to the rock near the top of the mountain, just sit on the rock, do nothing, and stay in a daze all day, surrounded by trees, the view is not wide, and there is no special beauty, Eunice also couldn't figure out why he liked this place alone, Caius sometimes mocked that Marcus looked young, but he spoke and acted like an old man unexpectedly.

Only Aro was not curious, or in other words, Aro was never curious about others. Whenever Marcus opened the door in silence and walked towards the top of the mountain, he would just smile, lower his head, and stand seriously. Trimming the branches and leaves of roses in front of the window, saying: "Everyone will react differently after falling in love."

Eunice raised her eyebrows: "How?"

"Like me, I'm like a lunatic when I'm in love." Ah Luo looked up at her with a wide smile in his eyes, "And Marcus, he's just an idiot."

"You mean, he's in love with someone?" Eunice blinked.

Caius, who was cleaning his sword on the other side, interjected abruptly, "You mean he fell in love with that stone?"

Eunice couldn't help laughing, but Aro shook his head with a smile: "You don't understand, Caius."

"Don't act like you know everything." Caius muttered, turning his face away.

In the next few years, Eunice still lived with them in the deep mountains, occasionally greedy for the hustle and bustle of the human world, and they would pick a rainy day to go down the mountain and walk around the town. Caius finally figured out what he was His identity needs to be kept absolutely secret, and he didn't mess around when he was going down the mountain; but Marcus always stared at the young women who passed by him every time. Those eyes could make the faces of passing girls flushed, but he only looked carefully for a while, then turned his head expressionlessly.

Although he didn't express any extra expressions, Eunice still caught a few flashes of disappointment in his eyes.

Only later did Marcus tell Eunice that he was looking for someone, a pretty little girl with dark brown curly hair.

"If I'm not wrong, she should be fifteen or sixteen years old now." When Marcus said this, his voice was still gentle, but after getting along for a long time, Eunice could also distinguish from his voice Something other than tenderness.

At this time, he is no different from those frustrated boys who are separated from the girl they love.

But Eunice hooked the corners of her lips, remembering what A Luo told her, different people will have different reactions after falling in love, if A Luo is desperately pursuing, then Marcus is silent He didn't know how long he had to wait, but in the past few years, he never missed her for a moment, the moss-covered mountain rock, the mottled sky covered by the tree canopy, and the wind blowing past her. The sound of whirling leaves.

"If you find her 70 years later, she'll be an old lady with gray hair," Eunice said.

"But the soul never grows old." Marcus said lightly.

Eunice smiled and said, "Ah Luo is right, you are such an idiot."

"It has been since I was a child." Marcus seemed to sigh, "I was born as a Spartan general, but I just don't like war. The warlike blood of my ancestors, the Dorians, seems to have cooled down here. At that time, no matter my father No matter how much I beat and scolded, I refused to join the army, and many people laughed at my parents, saying that they gave birth to a fool, but even so, they still did not give up on me."

"When I was 15 years old, they died, no one forced me to join the army, but I ran to the army general's tent and knelt for a day and a night, saying that I would join the army."

Marcus looked at Eunice and smiled faintly: "So I have been like this since I was a child. Even if I become a vampire, I won't change."

"What a stubborn idiot." Eunice shook her head, jumped off the rock, patted the moss on her skirt, and was about to leave this place where Marcus missed love for himself When I was there, I heard Marcus say another sentence: "Princess Eunice... Do you remember Your Highness Leonit?"

Eunice freezes at the name, then turns to look at Marcus.

"Your Highness Leonit, he..."

"The relationship between me and him is already over." Eunice said calmly, "I don't want to hear his story."

Marcus lowered his eyes and nodded.

Eunice turned her head and just took a step forward when she heard Marcus say, "I can see that Luo loves you very much, but at the same time, he also has something to hide from you and is very afraid of you knowing."

It is Marcus's special ability to see the relationship and emotion between people at a glance.

Eunice turned her back to him, clutched the linen fabric of the dress in her hand, and said in a muffled voice, "Thank you, Marcus."

After waving goodbye to Marcus, she walked towards home, halfway, but stopped again, leaned on the trunk of an olive tree, and reached out to pick a verdant green olive.

She suddenly thought that there would be an olive tree planted in every courtyard of the Corinthian palace. When she was a child, she and Aro held hands, but they couldn’t wrap their hands around the trunk of the olive tree, and she was depressed because of this. Her father smiled and hugged her, letting her Sitting on his own neck, he said: "Eunice, you are still young, when you and A Luo grow up, you will be able to surround this tree."

"But when I grow up, my father won't be able to hold me anymore." Little Eunice said, pulling out a silver thread from her father's hair.

The old king said "Alas", but he didn't blame his naughty daughter. He said with a smile: "You can hold me, I can hold my baby girl anytime." After he finished speaking, he looked down at Ah Luo, who was looking up at them, said, "Ah Luo, when you grow up, try to surround this olive tree with Eunice, okay?"

Ah Luo opened his eyes wide, and the smiling faces of the old king and Eunice were reflected in the dark pupils.

He nodded.

Eunice grabbed the green olive in her hand, then turned around and ran down the hill.

She suddenly wanted to take a look at the olive tree back then.

The last time Eunice came to the Corinthian Palace was many years ago. At that time, there were still some traces of her father and Aro in the palace. Home is far from home.

The new king likes things with style and bright colors. The door and window frames of each palace have been dyed in exaggerated colors, and the clumps of rosemary under the window sills of the palace have also been dug away. The maids in the palace have also changed, with gorgeous clothes and frivolous words and deeds.

And the olive tree that was originally planted in my father's yard has disappeared.

Standing on the roof of her father's original bedroom, looking at the unfamiliar Corinthian palace, she felt a little dazed. She gritted her teeth, and when she saw a few coquettishly dressed maids swaying into the courtyard with wine, she felt almost ashamed. Bu jumped to the eaves above their heads, then turned into a few wisps of water vapor, got into the wine glass containing the wine, and merged with the crimson liquid.

She wanted to see what this Thracian cousin, who had transformed the Corinthian palace for hundreds of years, looked like.

The maids didn't realize what was in the wine they brought. They whispered about the type of women that King Corinth liked recently, and then raised their chins and said disdainfully: "I heard that the Athenian woman was really beautiful when she was young. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have seduced Pometheus to abandon his family and country, but now he’s just an old woman, how can he compare with us.”

"I heard that she even insulted His Majesty with words that angered His Majesty. No, she was imprisoned. She deserved it. She didn't look at her face." Another younger girl said.

But Eunice was a little surprised when she heard what they said. When she came to Corinth many years ago, she heard that the new king abandoned his wife and daughter to marry Celia. Unexpectedly, after many years, not only the palace of Corinth has undergone earth-shaking changes, but Celia has also changed from a favored queen to a prisoner.

"What did the Athenian woman say that made His Majesty so angry?" asked the girl at the front.

"Hey, it's not about His Majesty's renovation of the palace. There were many unhappiness before. When His Majesty renovated the palace, the relationship was very tense. Wait for His Majesty to dig up the rosemary under the window sill and the olive tree at the gate of the courtyard. At that time, the Athenian woman pointed at His Majesty's nose and cursed, saying, 'You are just a lowly Thracian nobleman, why dig up the tree planted by the previous king'."

Eunice was stunned when she heard this, and turned into a stream of transparent water vapor, climbed up the rim of the wine glass, and looked up at the maids.

"Wow, that Athenian woman really dared to say it."

"Isn't she also an Athenian commoner? If the previous king was not entrusted by Prometheus to take her and her son to the Corinthian Palace to take good care of her, she is now just a woman weaving in a box in Athens. , I really take myself seriously, and dare to offend His Majesty."

"However, something is really wrong with Your Majesty recently. Not only has he dismissed General Botis from his post and expelled him outside the city, but he has also spent a lot of money to renovate the palace. If you want me to say, the old palace looks better..."

While the girls were talking, they had already reached the door of the dormitory. They immediately fell silent, lowered their heads, and stepped into the dormitory. Eunice floated out of the wine glass, trying to go inside, but she hadn't gone around the curtain yet. First, I heard a girl's crisp and crying voice.

"Father, I beg you, my mother is sick, please let her out, even if you don't want to, can you call a medical officer to see her?"