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and
politics.”
    Adrienne studied
the vampire sprawled on the floor. Even she could see that he was completely
wiped out from her psychic draining. He didn’t look like one of the greatest vampire
warriors of all time to her. She looked at her dad who was grinning at her and
she remembered he could read her mind. Not something she wanted to think about
right now. Eventually she was going to have to come up with a list of all the
times she’d lied to him, or tried to sneak out, or…shit!
    Carter struggled
not to laugh; he didn’t want to get off track. “So. During all this time that
Xavier was becoming a warrior, I raised you as close to human as possible. I
kept you hidden, and we moved every decade or so. Your mother died in order to
provide the paranormal shield that gave you human attributes and kept you from
aging. She didn’t kill herself; she offered her life, for yours. Do you
understand the difference, Adrienne?”
    He waited for his
daughter’s nod before he continued, “The spell your mother died to give you
started to slowly slip away, and in the year 1990, you started to age again,
and I knew the time had come to make a stand. To find us a place where you
could grow to maturity and where when the time came, that others that we trust,
other’s like Xavier, could be near to help protect you as you take your
rightful place among our people.”
    The missing
puzzle pieces were slowly starting to come together. She’d always thought she
had a really active imagination, always picturing herself at different times,
in different places. Places she had never visited were so clear in her mind.
Well, maybe she had been there. Maybe these were memory flashes, things that
had really occurred as part of her past, and not just an overactive
imagination. She felt as if there was a veil over her memories, and that veil
was slowly being lifted away. Now Adrienne could understand why her mother had
put a spell on her, and that she had died to protect her. What she really
wanted was even a single memory of her mother.
    “The only way to
keep you safe from all harm that could come your way, your mother gave up her
life. At this time she was considered the strongest living vampire. That legacy
passes to you. When she died, the two vampire empires collapsed and evolved
into the five we have today. Those empires include the American realm, which we
rule, the European realm, which Xavier's family heads, the Asian realm, the
African realm, and the Russian realm.”
    “So why am I only
finding out about this now?” she asked.
    “As a human
child, in a state of stasis or I don’t know…I think a better description is a
state of non-growth, you didn’t need to know anything. To keep you safe, you
had to stay human. But as your body matured to what in human physiology is the
age of eighteen, your body and mind have transitioned from adolescence to
adulthood.”
    “Why does that
make a difference?” She just wasn’t getting why Xavier could know all this time
but she couldn’t.
    “Vampires age
very slowly. At two hundred years they are as a thirteen year old human. We
wanted to give you time for your body and mind to aged. As an adult in both the
vampire and the human world, you can help take care of yourself. You can learn
the skills you need to survive, to make your own decisions. The reality is that
the curse or spell was not intended to last forever, but to give you time to
become an adult. Now you can live and survive without the help of the curse,”
her father smiled at her.
     “So the curse is
completely broken?” Adrienne asked. Her mouth formed into a very thin line. She
didn't know what she thought about all of this. What the night’s revelations
would mean to her life. She would need to learn a lot more about being a
vampire before she could have an opinion. What really bothered her is that she
knew she was a pretty shallow human being. She liked boys, she liked to party,
she wanted to go to Mexico on