"You two are back." Aldritch said as he came into his room to find Lina and Olgud inside. He had Ingrid on his back since she couldn't maneuver her way into the room through the window. With the stench of blood on her, there was no way they could use the front door and enter normally into the premises. Luckily, the side where their room was didn't face the busy streets.
"Yes, master." Lina said while bowing slightly. Olgud bowed the same but didn't speak.
The two inside couldn't help but notice the blood on stench. Being vampires, their senses were extra sharp. Once Aldritch dropped Ingrid, she quickly moved towards Lina and Olgud sheepishly.
"Well, there were some unforeseen happenings, but in the end no one undeserving of death died... How did it go on your end?" He asked the other two.
"We did as you ordered, no evidence was left, and no one was killed."
"Good. Go out now, I need to clean myself."
Aldritch left them so he could use the bathroom since he needed to clean off the blood stains on his own body, not to talk of his clothes which got stained in different spots, even though only a little. Since this place was of reasonable quality, it had a bathroom inside with water readily available inside a medium sized drum. There was also a smaller basin where the water could be turned into.
Olgud returned to his room, while Ingrid followed Lina to hers.
"What exactly happened?" Lina asked, going straight to the point.
"Well, you see, I kind of..." Ingrid explained everything that happened step by step to Lina. She was a bit shy since she had cause everything, but it helped her feel less at fault as Lina didn't blame her or look disappointed in anyway. Well, it was less of a shock seeing as Aldritch didn't look disappointed either, really, she wasn't sure what he was thinking at all.
"What about the girl?"
"Well, she wouldn't wake up so master dipped her face in a stream until she woke up, then he erased her memories of what happened. To tell you the truth, it was a bit hard to believe it when he said he had erased her memory, but going with every other thing, it didn't seem that much impossible anymore."
"If master says it's alright, then you don't have to worry, it is."
Ingrid still felt a bit apprehensive before Lina for some reason, she couldn't quite explain it. 'Is there something else wrong?'
"Huh? Don't tell me, you've never done it before?" Lina asked surprisingly before her expression turned inquisitive, "maybe that's why you lack so much womanly features..." she thought out loud, making Ingrid blush.
"I don't think that's how it work... but is it really, you know, the way you describe it?"
"With other human males? Not at all, all of them barely lasted a few minutes and I barely felt anything, but if you're asking about master..." she said with an ecstatic expression on her face that drew Ingrid in and populated her thoughts with wild imaginations. "he's a complete monster that will take you to another world."
"But, wait... did you really capture master before all this? How's that even possible?" Ingrid asked, a bit stupefied, finding it hard to paint the picture in her head.
"Well... yes..." Lina answered embarrassingly. "But think of it this way, if my people never captured him, I would have never gotten the chance to meet him!" she said in defense.
"W-well, I guess so." With all that Lina had shared with her, she couldn't help but see Aldritch in a different light than what she had in mind before. Without her knowing, Lina's views were slowly seeping into her subconscious, and her virgin mind couldn't fight it.
Thinking more on everything, Ingrid thought to herself, different things going through her head. From what Aldritch made her understand, she was no longer human, was there even any need to go on with her plan? It would be useless it seemed.
For the time being, she concluded it to be too early to make any decision, as she would naturally find out how things will go as time went on.
Aldritch called for them again after some time. It was decided that they would all leave the inn and settle down in Ingrid's house for the time being. Aldritch might just be too careful, but it was better than being careless.
Before dawn, Aldritch booked out of the inn and they all left to Ingrid's house. So much had happened in just one night, Ingrid for one needed plenty of rest to fully regain her energy. Everything still felt like a dream of some sort, a good rest was needed to completely digest it all.
"Luckily, your house is so big," Aldritch said, sarcastically.
After looking around a bit, everyone agreed that Aldritch would take the bedroom while the rest made due with the sitting room and small dining area. Ingrid remembered that she had to attend the academy, but the tiredness soon took over and she fell asleep.
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A/N: Ahhh, I've been straying from the true calling these past few chapters... Dark mode ON