Walking towards the tenths castle, Timmy was leading the way without really knowing it, as the others would let him go in front. The castles could be seen from nearly anywhere in the settlement since they were so large and grand. The problem was though; they didn’t exactly have numbers on them showing which castle was which.
And due to a large castle being placed in the middle and another large one right on the end. Logan couldn’t even make any logical sense to an order of the castles. However, each castle was slightly different in design and the large banner bearing down from the top was also different from each one.
It was the family crest. A few times, Logan would see the family crest on certain students. An example of this was Xander, those that were within the inner circle of the family and not part of the pool. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
Currently, the group was in what was known as the main area. Every vampire belonged to a family, but this was what was referred to as the vampire pool. The vampires that didn’t have the families abilities and were able to switch between, hoping to one day rise into the inner circle by showing their strength.
The way of living wasn’t bad. There were still nice houses all around, happy faces of the people and shops. It looked just like any regular human town, apart from the place being in darkness the whole time. While walking, Logan was a little afraid that Timmy would just be walking to his own house, which would be located in the pool area. Which meant they wouldn’t be able to go to the tenth castle, but it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out which was the tenth castle, he thought.
Cia was now practically clinging onto Layla’s arm as the two of them walked at the back. She had become even less talkative now, and it looked as if she wasn’t really speaking to Layla either. The truth was, Layla was finding this a tad bit annoying now.
Thanks to her training at the school, she was able to control her own emotions now quite well and at will. If needed, she could use both of her skills without having to feed off Cia’s negative emotions. Still, for some reason, frequently negative emotions were starting to seep out of Cia more and more, and not knowing what to do, Layla would still consume them for her, but she couldn’t help but think this might be a bad idea. Perhaps Cia was becoming dependent on Layla now to lift her mood.
Soon she would have to stop, or find the root cause to what exactly was causing her negative thoughts.
As they walked, suddenly, everyone on the streets including Timmy who was walking stopped as they could see the sight in front of them. All of the people around started to point and look in one direction in particular. It was one of the castles.
Unlike the others, this castle wasn’t lit up, until now that was.
"What’s happening, did the tenth leader return!" Timmy said excitedly.
But soon after, the lights had gone off, but that didn’t stop the people on the streets and such discussing what they had just witnessed.
"Guy’s did you see, did you see? The tenth’s castle lights went on!" Timmy said in excitement. Timmy wasn’t exactly an outspoken or energetic person, so to see him this excited about something the others felt like this must have been quite the big deal.
"Yeah, I can’t believe it, right?" Vorden said, trying to fake his excitement as well.
Now when walking and leading the way, Timmy was walking a lot faster than before. With each step he had a little hop and the smile on his face hadn’t gone away. Looking at the others around though, Logan had noticed their faces mostly had a look of concern.
The good news was that Timmy seemed to be heading to the castle that had lightened up. He could only assume it was the tenths castle and now even if Timmy did live in the pooling area, they knew the general direction that they needed to go.
Finally, they had gotten quite close to the inner castle area and a wall not too high could be seen that seemed to split the two sections apart. Timmy continued to walk forward while the others stopped. For there seemed to be guards stationed at the wall that separated the two areas.
When Timmy noticed the others were no longer walking, he turned around.
"What’s wrong?" Timmy asked. "Oh, is it because we are going into the inner castle area? Don’t worry too much about it, I can get us in. I’m close with the former Vampire knight, Edward. He always lets me in.
"The truth is, me and my family don’t live in the inner castle area either, but you see Edward is a really nice guy. Unlike the other families, they don’t believe in their segregated tier system. As long as you are a part of the family, you are free to choose to be in the pooling area or in the inner castle area.
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