![]() ![]() They are little more than wraiths though after he has stolen their souls so Aeriel cant tell wich one of them is Eoduin. He does and takes her back to his castle to be handmaiden to his "wives" other young women he has taken. So she goes up the mountain and waits for the vampyre to come back. Horrified she runs to tell everyone that Edouin has been kidnapped.īut no one believes her Except for a strange blind old woman who tells her the creature she saw was a vampyre and that he kidnapped Edouin to become his "wife" wich essentially means to steal her soulĪriel decides if no one will try to save Edouin its up to her to do it.Even if she is a lowly slave girl. Then suddenly Edouin is snatched and abducted by a winged creature. How to make justice to a book that blew you away when you first read it?Īriel is accompanying her mistress-Edouin up on the mountain to gather some flowers. ![]()
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