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I went to school on-and-off for weeks at a time, then I had to redo a year because of too many absences, so I decided to cancel that, enrolled for the same year at a different highschool, took two-years in one, studied a lot by myself and took the final exams regardless. I passed them with 9 out of 10. (Different grading system). After that signed-up for college which was easier to miss from and study by yourself. As for your last question, that’s an easy (but long) answer. When you’re that old, money comes to you I guess. A lot of people live like that too. Make smart investments, over long periods of times. There are plenty of options. A lot of them do work regular jobs though, new-made ones mostly.Good answer.Same here. I’m writing a master thesis, and working and writing this blog and taking off every few weeks now and then. Trying to find time to finish this blog before we all get old.I'd love to read it.Are you still considering on turning? For some reason I hoped that you will. Despite everything I just don’t see why you won’t be with the person you love. For eternity is a gift that is rarely given to spend with a significant other.Because the story doesn’t end here…What happened then?“I’m sorry. I can’t anymore. One more drop and you’ll have to carry me back.” I said as I pried both of them off of me. Him from the wrist and Regina from the neck. I remember I started actually praying around that time, for it to be the last time I feel something like that.I had never had two of them feeding off me in the same time. In five seconds you feel like your whole life just fell apart instantly. There has to be another component to it, because the drain is not only physical, but emotional too. You actually feel yourself being… taken away. I don’t know how else to put it.“Or we can leave you here.” Sigismund responded.“You know what? I’m really tired of you already. I’m the only reason you’re not still in that ice prison in the first place. How about some respect?” I said in frustration. I immediately regretted it, but the pressure and stress was taking its toll. I was on the brink of total collapse, emotionally. physically I felt more than fine, just had troubles keeping warm.“RESPECT? To a boy?! I’m hundreds of years old. You should watch your tone.” He responded.“No, you’re not. You were dead for all that time. It doesn’t fucking count. You didn’t live. I did. I know this world. You don’t. How about we leave you here?” I said angrily. I don’t respond well to threats.Regina was smiling. Not saying anything, just smiling.“Oh you’re acting like children.” She finally said.“Well at least I have an excuse. I am one. What’s his?” I said. He growled.Cute.I want you, the reader, to understand that Sigismund was a real person. If you’ve missed the previous posts, Sigismund is a relative of Regina, his name is Sigismund Bathory, he ruled Transilvania for a while. He wasn’t bad nor exceptionally good, he helped lower Romania (Wallachia) with troops for fighting against the Ottomans (because it was in his interest), but in the end he was driven out after the Romanian armies marched into Transilvania.He was a controversial person. Although of Hungarian family (the name Bathory) he was actually Romanian, and prince of Transilvania. He fought side by side with the Romanian troops against the Ottomans, but then he ceded Transilvania to his cousin, Andrei Bathory, who was Polish. This pissed off the Romanians. He also promised certain privileges to the Hungarians living in Transilvania, which were withdrawn by a Romanian governmental gathering later on.He then changed his mind about the throne, and asked for it back from Andrei Bathory. After he received it, he decapitated a few officials which were Turkish sympathizers, including one of his own family, Baltazar Bathory.He then ceded the throne a second time, leaving Transilvania to his wife, and went to Prague. A year later he came back unexpectedly, took Transilvania again, only to cede it back once again to his cousin, Andrei Bathory.After Andrei Bathory died, he came back once AGAIN and took Transilvania, but this time the Romanian troops have had enough of this power-play, went to war with him, defeated him and he returned to Prague once again.He supposedly died in Prague, the Czech Republic, in 1613, 28 years after Regina was born, 300 km from Cachtice Castle were Regina was born.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund\_B%C3%A1thoryInteresting. Rest in peace. I think you deserved it.“Steel? All this is steel? But this must take decades to make, such a large amount of steel.” He replied back.Ha. Wait till he hears about World War I.Oh right.Pt. 50:I travel and move a lot but I have 3 posts lined up and on auto-post so smaller gaps. I plan to finish in about one year from now, and I think I still have another 50-60 posts. I’ll set-up a mailing list soon so you get it delivered to your mail if you think that’s more convenient.Good to know.The ship pulled in the port and things were getting back to ‘normal’. A car was waiting at the docks, empty, no driver but Regina went straight for it, hopped in, keys in contact, already warmed up. This was the way I remembered we left things.Sigismund on the other hand was left way behind. He stopped every 10 meters and lost his gaze upon common things. The pavement, the gray metal cranes on the dock, powerful lights shining down the docks, etc. I guess the adaptation is not as good as we might see it in the movies. He was amazed, emotional, ecstatic, observant and excited in the same time.The car was just the last drop. The moment we drove off he was… I can’t describe that expression properly. A kid that sees a theme park for the first time, maybe. The typical questions always included “How?” “Why?” “When?” and “How?” again.We only drove for about 20km from where we were picked off by a small 4-seat helicopter. Now that was the interesting part of the day for Sigismund. The moment that thing went airborne Sigismund turned white. He couldn’t believe his eyes.Van Gogh at his gallery?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJI\_UphPkHe felt insulted because the pilot told him to go back and stay out of the cockpit. None of them were dead, neither the flight attendant nor the pilot, but they weren’t going to wake-up soon.“Sigismund, this thing is going at over 500 mph.” I added.Not a flinch for him.“That’s over 450 knots.” I explained.“Impossible.” Sigismund finally acknowledged.“No, very possible. That’s the speed we’re doing. Look out the window. See that? That’s ‘almost Moscow’ already.” I added.“Somebody needs to stop this, take it down, put out the wheels, step on the breaks and land it. See all those buttons? The only person that knows what to do with them is lying right there on the floor!” I was shouting by this point, and Sigismund was slowly realizing we might have a slight problem.All the fuss woke up Regina.“Morons…” She casually walked past us and straight into the pilot’s place. She closed the door behind her.Good job.“RX11 Oversight, contacting Moscow approach on 121.4. Authentication XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX”“Stand-by RX11 Oversight.”“Authentication acknowledged RX11 Oversight.”“Moscow approach, RX11 Oversight, Level 1 inbound.”“Please repeat that RX11 Oversight.”“Level 1 inbound.”“Aaaa, RX11 Oversight. Please confirm.”“XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX Red. Assistance upon landing required. Inbound 15 minutes.”“Level 1 Confirmed. Welcome to Moscow!”“Moscow approach, RX11 Oversight, level 12,000 feet.”“RX11 Oversight, Moscow approach, turn right, heading 2-2-0.”“Right to 2-2-0. Down to 8,000, RX11 Oversight.”“RX11 Oversight, cleared runaway 1-6-left. Intercept (something) 1-6-left.”“RX11 Oversight, contacting Moscow tower 123.9.”“Confirmed.”Then the conversation switched back in English.“Moscow tower, RX11 Oversight cleared to land on 1-6-left.”“Confirmed. Cleared for landing on 1-6-left RX11 Oversight.”Neat.“Oh, hello…” Sigismund quickly jumped into action, brought back from his dream world in which he spent every single second since we touched civilization, examining every single thing and being amazed even by the glass from which the car windows were made of.“I believe you’re Viktoria?” He said and Viktoria nodded.“Then I must be your grandfather.” Sigismund said.Regina smiled towards her and Viktoria was in awe. She couldn’t believe her eyes. She jumped from the passenger seat “Move!” she exclaimed to me as she made room for herself inching closer to Sigismund.“Ahh but this is too good to be true…” She said as she touched Sigismund and looked to Regina.I took the passenger seat instead and left them with their little reunion, but I felt Regina’s eyes on the back of my head a couple of times. I knew when something was wrong, I learned to read it in her eyes and her smile.Ain't it cute?I was pushed aside and managed to break a small table in the process, Regina just took a seat and relaxed and Viktoria…Viktoria jumped on Sigismund and violently pinned him to the ground.Still cute.Pt. 51:Yes, screw-ups usually happen in the early days of any new one, but then they become more rare once each and every of them develops their own way of coping.The ones that can’t cope and continue to mess it up are simply not allowed to mess-up any longer.I’m not even sure where to even start to form a coherent answer for this. It would need a separate post.However,Most of them don’t eat daily. Don’t rely on hunting or biting anyone, but instead on local networks that have been in place since god knows when.There is a reason why they don’t move often, and those that do remain within the already established functional areas.It’s not something that you do by yourself. It’s nothing like our society. There’s no gloomy, self-contained, in the shadows type vampire that lurks behind the corners.It’s a very social, open and very, very-focused on connections and networks.It’s bound to be. Imagine living 100 years with the same 400-500 people.My view was always biased being near V and Regina and their closed circle.The bulk of them however are very social but not too mobile. They rely on the same networks and structures of power.I’m not a fan of giving pop-culture movies as a reference for anything, but I can’t help it because this movie paints a good illustration on how it might work for some: https://ift.tt/MDaBjUn to know.“Over 150,000 days I walked this Earth up and down, back and forth.”“I searched for you. I searched for him (referring to me I suppose?) and then I gave up. It was all a lie that you told me. There is no greater order of things. There is no order at all. It’s all chaos! Nobody knows what the hell we’re doing, but we are. We are doing something.”The speech I've read so many times. Continue.“150,000 days and just as many…”“Just as many hearts, sons and daughters, hearts stopped by these hands and these…” And she elevated her head once again.Her fangs were fully extended. Her eyes were black and flowing with red, injected and tired, mixed with tears that she held back and with anger. Oh she was pissed, but spoke calm.“And for what?” She continued.“Viktoria? She lost count long, long ago of the souls THAT I MADE her take. Long ago.” Viktoria’s face was still blank. She didn’t care.Yep.“Then tell me, what’s so important that would have you rather spend 400 years trapped in a block of ice than being what you are supposed to be. What I am for Viktoria and what EVERY – SINGLE – VAMPIRE is for their offspring?”“Don’t worry. I made sure NO vampire steps into this life without at least one person to rely on. At least ONE SINGLE PERSON that she can trust.”“You left me with a religious myth, a promise and the hunger to bleed dry an entire village. Which I promptly did !”“The world has changed, a lot. And you clearly have no intention to adapt, no idea how to adapt, nor do you want me – nor even you – around.”“I built an empire. AN EMPIRE based on every single value opposed to yours.”“Look.” She stood up and took him to the window.“You see that? There are thousands of us out there.” She said as she pointed towards the greater area of Moscow.“And hundreds of thousands more across the continent. Soon millions across the globe.”I could see Sigismund’s face going blank. He was scared shitless, but not of Regina. No. Something about the number of vampires in the world made him shiver from within his very core. I was intrigued.“There is no greater purpose. No good or bad. Nobody to rule over me or to make me do anything that I don’t want to.”“And after all that, you still have the guts to tell me that it’s wrong. That I can’t. That I won’t. That I shouldn’t ??!”“It doesn’t matter what you think or what you want. You don’t believe me? That’s great. Then tell me: Why him?” Sigismund asked, and looked towards me.“Take the necklace away. Throw it away. Let’s see then how that goes.”“Have you even STOPPED to think for a second that the only reason you’re still able to walk around wherever you want, do whatever you want, is because it’s only now that you found what you were looking for?”“And you know damn well what you – what WE need to do.”“Because this is the worst position we can possibly be in. Almost.”Regina fell silent for a second.“I don’t care!” She shrieked. Let’s see what happens! Let me show you that the two of us (referring to herself and Viktoria) are stronger than all of you ever were, in the entire history of our kind. You let yourselves be walked over time and time again. Controlled like little cage rats. For what?”“Let me show you for what!”Regina came towards me, ripped the necklace off my neck and threw it out the window. I yelled and I protested and all that, but I won’t bore you with any of the details. It was futile anyway. It was gone and I was fucked.“For nothing.” She added, and stopped.More confusion but I guess she was supposed to be the one to do all this. Find him, find Sigismund and then what? Who knows?Sigismund started laughing like a maniac. I ignored him.“You know damn well I need that!” I continued“No, no you don’t!” Regina replied.“Yeah, I know exactly what you’re thinking. And that’s not gonna happen. Not like this. I’m never going to say yes if you force me too.” I replied.Upon hearing that, Sigismund started laughing even harder.“Oh, that’s good. You ask for permission now?!” He asked and continued laughing.Quaint.“Start from the beginning. Everything that you never told me, now it’s your chance.”“I already told you everything I know. Have a few of your own. Then find someone like I found you. Pass it on, and then that’s it for you, and your offspring. That’s how is supposed to be.” Sigismund answered.And yet-She came out with a first-aid kit, placed it in front of Sigismund who was looking puzzled at it thinking it’s some kind of torture device maybe. She pulled out a syringe from there, stuck it in his neck and filled it with blood.He didn’t even flinch.“Now that I have what I need to get started… it won’t be long.” She continued.What the hell was she on about? I felt again like I felt the very first day I met her. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually did.“Viktoria.” Regina said as she gave her a look and nothing else.Viktoria nodded.“Let’s go.” She looked at me and left the room.I wanted to complain about 1000 different things. I still remember that probably it was one of the times I felt so tired I just wanted to have a heart attack right then and there.“Where are we going?” I asked as I rushed to catch her down the hallway like a confused kid.“The hospital.”Wait. What?And so that's the end for now. At least it better conclude eventually.
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