directly at me, revealing a mouth packed full of almost animal-like teeth which he used to easily bite through the skin around the man’s neck, immediately sending blood pouring from the wounds.
I closed my eyes for a couple of seconds before opening them again in the slim hope that what had happened to me tonight was nothing more than another of my nightmares, but instead I found myself captivated by the hypnotic blue eyes of the man who was now drinking my attacker’s blood directly in front of me.
I could see the man’s look of satisfaction grow more and more as he continued to drink and he suddenly stopped momentarily to say something to me.
“Is est non vestri vicis morior etiamnunc!”
I had no idea what the man had said or even what language he had said it in, but that was the least of my worries right now as I could feel my body quickly begin to lose all feeling and it wasn’t long before the numbness took over me completely, leaving me to fall backwards onto the hard unforgiving ground.
CHAPTER THREE
I slowly opened my eyes, completely unaware of exactly how long I had actually passed out for, but instead of being on the cold ground of the alleyway, I found myself sitting upon the floor of a dimly lit room inside a house that I had never seen at any point of my life before.
I looked around, but nothing that I saw revealed any kind of familiarity to me and I began to feel incredibly uneasy.
Where the hell was I right now?
What exactly was I doing here?
Was this all a dream?
As more and more questions began to fill my mind one after the other, I began to make out what sounded like screams of panic coming from outside the house, mixed in with the sounds of horses galloping accompanied by loud incoherent shouting echoing from every direction.
I gingerly lifted myself off the floor and made my way towards a small window that was in the room to take a look at what exactly was going on outside and as I stood in front of it, a young man suddenly joined me at the window sill to investigate as well.
The sight that greeted us outside was nothing short of sickening as I looked down to see men, women, children and animals scattering in all directions as an army of heavily armoured swordsmen rode through on horseback indiscriminately slaughtering anything and anyone that had the gross misfortune of being in their path.
Other riders followed closely behind carrying flaming torches which were being used to set fire to homes as they rode past, forcing those who hid inside out onto the streets in order to face their ultimate demise.
The air just echoed with unearthly screams as one by one the death toll began to rise as each victim was being picked out for elimination.
I watched on in sheer horror as I witnessed body after body falling onto the street and I caught a glimpse of an old man and woman stepping out from below us, both with confused faces as to what the commotion was all about.
It was at this point that the young man to the side of me finally ended his silence by shouting directly to the old couple below us to get back inside the house, but unfortunately his plea fell upon deaf ears as nothing was audible due to the panic that was breaking out all around us.
But instead of a safe return back inside the house, two swordsmen rode past the elderly couple below, simultaneously swinging their swords through the air until the cold steel blades met the soft flesh of the helpless man and woman, sending their lifeless bodies crashing to the ground.
One of the attackers backed up his horse and stood majestically over the two bodies for a few moments before suddenly looking up towards the window as if he had spotted the two of us spectating from above. He held his sword aloft and pointed it directly towards us confirming that
I closed my eyes for a couple of seconds before opening them again in the slim hope that what had happened to me tonight was nothing more than another of my nightmares, but instead I found myself captivated by the hypnotic blue eyes of the man who was now drinking my attacker’s blood directly in front of me.
I could see the man’s look of satisfaction grow more and more as he continued to drink and he suddenly stopped momentarily to say something to me.
“Is est non vestri vicis morior etiamnunc!”
I had no idea what the man had said or even what language he had said it in, but that was the least of my worries right now as I could feel my body quickly begin to lose all feeling and it wasn’t long before the numbness took over me completely, leaving me to fall backwards onto the hard unforgiving ground.
CHAPTER THREE
I slowly opened my eyes, completely unaware of exactly how long I had actually passed out for, but instead of being on the cold ground of the alleyway, I found myself sitting upon the floor of a dimly lit room inside a house that I had never seen at any point of my life before.
I looked around, but nothing that I saw revealed any kind of familiarity to me and I began to feel incredibly uneasy.
Where the hell was I right now?
What exactly was I doing here?
Was this all a dream?
As more and more questions began to fill my mind one after the other, I began to make out what sounded like screams of panic coming from outside the house, mixed in with the sounds of horses galloping accompanied by loud incoherent shouting echoing from every direction.
I gingerly lifted myself off the floor and made my way towards a small window that was in the room to take a look at what exactly was going on outside and as I stood in front of it, a young man suddenly joined me at the window sill to investigate as well.
The sight that greeted us outside was nothing short of sickening as I looked down to see men, women, children and animals scattering in all directions as an army of heavily armoured swordsmen rode through on horseback indiscriminately slaughtering anything and anyone that had the gross misfortune of being in their path.
Other riders followed closely behind carrying flaming torches which were being used to set fire to homes as they rode past, forcing those who hid inside out onto the streets in order to face their ultimate demise.
The air just echoed with unearthly screams as one by one the death toll began to rise as each victim was being picked out for elimination.
I watched on in sheer horror as I witnessed body after body falling onto the street and I caught a glimpse of an old man and woman stepping out from below us, both with confused faces as to what the commotion was all about.
It was at this point that the young man to the side of me finally ended his silence by shouting directly to the old couple below us to get back inside the house, but unfortunately his plea fell upon deaf ears as nothing was audible due to the panic that was breaking out all around us.
But instead of a safe return back inside the house, two swordsmen rode past the elderly couple below, simultaneously swinging their swords through the air until the cold steel blades met the soft flesh of the helpless man and woman, sending their lifeless bodies crashing to the ground.
One of the attackers backed up his horse and stood majestically over the two bodies for a few moments before suddenly looking up towards the window as if he had spotted the two of us spectating from above. He held his sword aloft and pointed it directly towards us confirming that
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