Vac opened his eyes, and took a sip of his brandy. "Moren, I poured you some brandy also. Tis' sitting near the other chair out here. Do you feel better after jogging?"
Moren Heard Vac's Voice in the other room just as he finnished taking off his heavy jacket. He layed in on the bed and Call back form the other room. "Oh, thank you. Its been a while sens I had a brandy. and yes, I do feel much better after my run. I like getting the feeling out like that." Moren finnished as he walked into the other room. He sat down near the glass and smelled the sweet smell coming from the brandy. He took a sip, and smiled. "This is good." Moren said, rasing the glass to Vac. Moren too another sip. "When I run it out like that it keeps me from getting additcted to the feeling. I'm guess you could see where that could be a problem if one is not careful."
Vac smiled. He raised his glass in Morens direction, and took a sip. "I am glad you feel better, and yes I do understand what you mean." He set his glass down, and walked over to the door which, was still open. He looked outside, and smiled. It had finallly started snowing. He shut the door, and walked back over to his chair, and sat back down.
Moren leaned back in the chair enjoying the quite and warmth both from the air in the hut and the brandy. "So tell me Vac, you didn't seemed to bothered by what all happened tonight. Have you seen that kind of thing befor?"
Vac thought about it, for a moment. "Yes, I have seen that sort of thing happen before. This was my first time being involved in it though. I had an understanding of how it all worked before but, I truely understand some other aspects of it."
Moren noded, taking another sip of brandy and enjoying the warmth from it for a moment. "It is a fine line, and I guess have done alright so far. I just really don't want to cross that line. Thats not what life is about." Moren leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes, remembering some of the things that had happened in his life and giving a long sigh.
Vac heard Moren sighed and smiled. He took a sip of his brandy. "Hold on tight to your memories Moren, whether they be good or bad, hold on tight to them and don't forget. One day you can use whatever you learned from them.
Moren smiled at Vac comment and Noded to what he was saying. he sat not saying anthing for a short while. Siping his brandy and enjoying the company of Vac. "So how did you get here?" Moren asked in a quite, calm voice, "To where you are now with your life. Its seems you have been through a lot."
Vac took another sip of his brandy and thought about it. "I am not sure where to start on telling how I got to this point. There have been quite a few up and downs."
Moren smiled and set down his glass. "Just start any where. There dosen't have to be any order to it. Just what ever your comforable with." Moren sat and watched Vac. He took it that Vac had never really had many who where really wanting to know much about him.
Vac thought for a moment and took a sip of his brandy. He had never met anyone who wanted to actually know about him before. "Well, I have pretty much been this way since I was 8 years old. I was with my sister and we were looking critters to give to our neighbor. What we didn't know is that underneath us in the murky water was something big and mean. She pointed at something behind us, so I went to grab it and I heard her scream. I turned back around, and she was gone.... I tried looking down in the water for her but, wasn't able to see her. I ran home to tell my parents only to find them dead." He stopped talking and took a sip of his brandy.
Moren listened, not saying much now. At the end of Vac's first part of his story Moren said, "Wow, what happened next?" Moren then took another sip of brandy, his glass now nearing empty, but he didn't care.
Vac continued telling his story. "I went to live with my uncle, who no one in my family could stand. I had no idea why, until I walked into his office and found him doing some embalming and taxidermy projects. I was fascinated bye it all, and took them as my trades."
Moren noded, then asked, "So did you ever find out what it was that took your sister and your folks?"
Vac quickly finished off his brandy, and set the glass down. He said in a sad voice,"No, I haven't figured it out. I have went and studied over and over, without any success."
Moren took and sip of his brandy, there was only about one sip left in the glass. Moren watched the expresion on Vac's face after his rather un-happy memory. He almost look angry that he couldn't find this thing. Moren held his tounge, He wanted to calm Vac down, but he knew that it would do no good, this was somthing Vac had in his own mind and not much from the out side could help. Moren spoke up, "how would you like to hear a story about me?" He asked. "I feel it only right that I share somthing back see you are will to share this with me."
Vac sat back, and closed his eyes for a moment letting the memory temporarily go. He opened his eyes back up and smiled. "Sure, I would like to hear one about you."
Moren Leaned backed into his chair, drinking the last little bit of his brandy. It was getting late, but he didn't care at this moment. "Lets see it was about 8 years ago, it was aroud these parts that me and my good freind where travling around. We didn't really know why, we where just following some feeling we had. I was kind just flying by the seat of my paints back then, and didn 't know near as much as I do now." Moren laughted a bit, more at him self then anything. "We where wondering up this mountian side, a very long drop on one side, and a near veritcal slope on the other. We where with 3 others at this time who where heading to the other side of the monutains. They had told us this was the best way to go, so we went with them not knowing any better. But once we got the summit we had to camp because it was getting to late." Moren closed his eyes, remebering the feeling he had up there." It was amazing up there, like you where on top of the world. But I keep having this naging feeling that some one else was up there with us, but we where it, not other track or any things." Moren got up from his seat, "do you mind if I get some water?" He asked Vac.
"So my friend and the others we where with got me to settle down about this and got me to lay down and get some sleep." Moren held his hand out and the door which the glasses where behind moved open a little, Moren reached in and grabed one of the plastic cups and filled it with water, taking a small drink from it. "But I didn't sleep very well," Moren picked back up." Keep waking up, thinking some one was out side our tent. Serverel time I bolted up right thinking there was a knife being ready to put into me." Moren sat down putting his water glass next to his empty brandy glass.."So the morning came, and all seemed fine. I checked every one out the best i could and as far as I could see, every one was ok. No was going to take cloths off because it was cold, so that made it hard. But we started to head down and I started to see every one taking a slower and slower pace. By the bottom of the decent two people, my freind and the oldist of the 3 we where with where very ill. So we got the to a small town and when I looked at my friend better he had festoring knife cuts all over his arms and legs. I cleaned and healed as many as I could, but some of them just wouldn't go away." Moren took another drink from his water and closed his eyes again, some times this kind of stuff sent shivers down his spine when he talked about it. "You see, I found out two days after we had got to the town that There where vamps in the area, and that this was how they slowly fed off their prey. The way I found out was one night I was awake in the place we where staying and felt the same feeling I had on the hill top. This time I got ready for it with all the ways I kenw how. I felt the thing near by and I started seeking for it." Moren held his hands out, displaying the way he seeked for it. "Saying the old word words my mother told me I walked around the room, and I could start to see little drops of blood on the floor. So I tracked them, looking at the floor, not seeing the thing over my friend till i bumped into it. I scremed, it scremed then we both scremed again. It tryed to fade away, but the old words held it there. It then asked who I was. I wouldn't tell it." Moren was getting into it now, make hand movments to add feeling to it. "I then asked it, what are you doing feeding off my freind? Its answer was got me very mad, he said because he was a healer in traning. I lost it. I couldn't hold the anger back any more. I just started to let it out." Moren sighed, remembering what happened, or what he could. " After about the thrid old word i said I blacked out. When I came too, a memdical crew stood over me and my friend, the vamp hung from the celing and one of the medical crew where telling me. "good job, he has been making our life hell for years." I never did find out what I did to it, but It made me see that I had that kind of power in me. Its kind of scary really, and I guess you got see some of it tonight." Moren took another drink of his water and then smiled at Vac.
