Page 78 of Even Vampires Bleed
“Don’t be too hard on her about it,” Angélique continues. “She’s had a few rough weeks lately, and she didn’t mean it like that.”
I’m pretty sure she did mean it like that, but I don’t feel like arguing. According to what we discussed earlier, I only have thirty minutes left before the jet will arrive to pick Cassiopé and I for our little trip to the forest.
And, yes, we’re supposed to throw our suitcases and jump after them directly from the jet when we arrive.
It’s going to be awesome.
Do you hear my sarcasm?
At least we both have a shifted form that can fly, which will make us avoid breaking any body parts.
Angélique takes my silence for disagreement and explains some more.
“She’s usually very sweet. Be nice and you’ll see everything is going to be alright.”
I doubt that, and I guess she can see it on my face because she adds again.
“Really, you used to like her, so don’t be an ass.”
And now I’m the ass in the story?
I can see why I might have liked her in my past life, she’s cute and she seems to care about people—we have a butterfly and a lizard shifter upstairs to prove that—but past-me must have done something very shitty to her because now it’s like she can’t even look at me and she obviously just told Elhyor and Angélique all about it from the little I heard earlier.
“Promise me, Léandre,” Angélique pleads.
“Okay, I’ll be on my best behavior,” I finally say, “but there are other things we need to discuss.”
It takes me all of two minutes to explain to Angélique and Elhyor—who surprisingly stayed very quiet during the part about Cassiopé—what I’d like for them to do.
In the end, they promised me to send letters—I don’t think I’ve ever written one—and that they will send someone to bring us supplies and check on us every week.
Honestly? I didn’t even think about the food, but now that they mention it, I’m starting to think this won’t be easy at all. How the hell can you store food when you don’t even have electricity?
There will be no fridge where we’re going, and suddenly, I’m way more scared of going there than to lose my memory again.
If I can’t do shit and need to learn everything all over again, at least I won’t remember that I used to be able to do any of this.
But no fridge? No air conditioning? No holo? No movie night?
Yeah, it’s scary as fuck.
And all of that with a girl that hates me?
It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Cassiopé
The trip to Otocyon is uneventful.
Maybe because Elhyor thought to book one of those automated jets that can fly super fast and carry at least six people.
When Léandre entered it, I just sat on the opposite side and started to read.
Read is a bold word, though, because I don’t think I remember a single word I read during the entire trip.
Why?
