Loyalty, Determination, and Knowledge (On Indefinite Hiatus)

This would've been up sooner if my stupid computer hadn't decided that it wasn't going to connect to internet for more than 3 minutes. But anyway... Here goes another chapter. Enjoy!!!

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Cassi’s POV

 

 

            Giant, metal bird. That was how I would describe an airplane. They were huge! And they were all different sizes, and colors (mostly mainly white), and they were all unique. Not a single one seemed to be exactly the same, even if they were meant to be that way. I stared at them through the windows until Aunya grabbed my hand and pulled me to a bathroom.

“We need to change your contacts. They’ll start to dissolve soon.” I nodded and let her do that. I hated the contacts. They were full of scratches and tiny faults that annoyed my eyes. They also turned the red of my eyes to a murky brown. “When’s the last time you’ve fed?” Aunya asked, interrupting my whining thoughts.

“About a week ago. A little over. Why?”

“Your eyes are getting dark. We’ll feed when we get to America.”

“Oh, I don’t need to. I can make it at least a week longer.” She looked down at me disapprovingly.

“You’re going to be surrounded by humans everywhere we go. Let’s not risk it, alright, sweetheart?” I sighed and shrugged my shoulders. I didn’t want to have my decisions made for me, but I didn’t argue. At least she wasn’t like Garret who had made me feed every week, simply so I’d get used to killing people. Of course, I was over that, wasn’t I? Sure, I was picky about my victims, but that was only proper, wasn’t it? I wondered if Aunya chose her victims carefully, or if she, like most vampires, just pounced upon whomever she came across first. I didn’t bother to ask for fear that I wouldn’t like the answer.

“Why are we going to be surrounded all the time?” I asked instead.

“I have some important business in some very important places. It won’t be like this, with a thousand strangers, we’ll know everybody there after a day or two.”

“How long are we going to be there?”

“A couple of months, maybe. It depends, really.”

“On what?” I heard her sigh softly.

“At least you know how to ask questions.” She looked down at me. “How about I tell you all about it once we get on the plane. And then you can spend the rest of the time thinking about whether or not you want to learn everything else.” I nodded and she took me into a line full of mostly irritable humans. They didn’t seem to be pleased with how long it was taking. Of course, I couldn’t see why. It was merely a minor inconvenience, at least, to me it was. I had spent more time trying to read a map. Which I failed at, of course.

We finally got to a couple of men in uniforms and some weird doorway without a door. “Are you wearing any jewelry, Cassi?” Aunya asked. I nodded. “Take it off and put it in that plastic bin, along with your shows. I did and she did too. Then we walked through the doorway and got our stuff back. After they put it through some weird machine on a moving counter. Aunya watched me put my shoes on and then asked, “Who taught you to tie your shoes?”

“The people who showed me shoes, of course. They bought me my first pair but I wore those out and got new ones. Why?”

“You tie them weird, but whatever works, I guess.” And then we walked down a hallway to a weird enclosure that went downhill, and into the body of the beast. Chairs filled the inside of the airplane; they were small but seemed as good as any other chair. Aunya led me to our seats and we sat down, she even gave me the one closest the window.