I stared at the ceiling of the basement panting out of breath as my whole body ached. All day without a break I've been running at Galen trying to hit him but I barely even see him move when he punches or pushes me away.

"I'm pathetic." I groaned sitting up and looking at Galen who just stood there watching me. "You move so fast, I can barely see it. What? Do I have to go all beast and put all my senses on high alert to see you move even a fraction?"

Galen raised an eyebrow at me. "That's exactly what you should do." He said and I groaned again standing up.

"Okay." I nodded taming my heavy breathing before expanding all of my senses. I could hear everything, see every detail, smell the scents of everyone who has been in the basement, and I could feel the slight shift of the air around me. "Okay." I said again looking at Galen intently before running at him full speed. Finally, I saw and felt him move. I froze and dodged his push making surprise flash across the man's face. I ducked down under his arms and swung my own up at his face within his guard but he was still faster than me and was able to lean back dodging my swing before turning slightly and palming my side. I felt one of my ribs crack under his palm and pain flared through my side making me cry out as I was thrown across the ground.

"Ow." I hissed holding my side where my rib broke. "That hurts." I complained only to feel it start to fade quickly. "What?" I asked when the pain faded and I felt my side to see that my rib was back intact.

"We heal faster than humans, a cracked rib is nothing to us." Galen told me. "That was good, if you do that again every time I might even have to start fighting back properly."

I gave him a small smile and stood up extending my senses again. I breathed in and attacked. I did this again five more times, each time being thrown across the room without even leaving a scratch on him. I fell to my knees gasping for breath after the last time I was thrown. Sweat pored off me and I felt dried blood on my nose and lips from where Galen had broken my nose. The door that leads back up to the mansion opened and my Mistress walked in and I was disappointed when Beatrice wasn't with her this time.

My Mistress raised her eyebrows at me before turning to Galen. "She looks ready to pass out, what have you done to my pet Galen?" She asked him.

"She has quite the stamina, we haven't had a break since the start and she hasn't complained once." Galen told her. "Tomorrow I will teach her a few techniques and then we'll do the same again. She is a fast learner and I'm sure she's going to be very useful to you in the future."

"Fantastic." My Mistress smiled brightly before turning to me. "Can you stand my pet?"

I tried to tame my breathing before I stood up once again. "I can Mistress." I told her.

"Good, your lesson here is done. Come with me now." My Mistress ordered and turned to walk out of the basement.

"Thank you sir." I bowed to Galen who nodded at me before I rushed off after my Mistress. I followed her through the hallways of the mansion that had slaves and servants running around doing who knows what, until she stopped in front of a familiar door.

"Have a bath and I will send Georgia to fetch you soon with clothing." My Mistress ordered.

"Thank you Mistress." I bowed to her and she smiled.

"Rest up my pet, I will see you soon." We parted with that and she left as I walked into the bathroom that had servants bathing and gossiping within.

Everyone went silent when I walked in and I immediately felt like an outcast since I could smell that everyone here was human. I went to a secluded corner and undressed as the women around me started whispering. I didn't bother telling them that I could hear them because I was just too tired to speak. I sunk into the water with a sigh closing my eyes to let the hot water soak into my sweaty skin and clean away any dirt and blood.

Everything went quiet around me again and I felt something moving towards me in the water. "You're not human are you?" A voice asked from in front of me.

I opened my eyes to see a tall, shapely woman with waist length red hair and hazel eyes that had a slightly golden tint.

"No I'm not." I agreed with her.

"Then why are you bathing here? Usually your kind bathes somewhere else." The woman said not looking intimidated by me.

"My Mistress brought me here so this is where I'll bathe." I told her simply rubbing my arms before running a hand through my hair.

"Some of the others say you're dangerous, but you don't look it." The woman piped up.

I frowned at her and it was true, I could hear the heart beats of everyone in the room and most of them are beating really fast like a frightened rabbit. "We are dangerous, when we want to be I suppose." I shrugged.

"I've heard stories that your kind bathes away from us humans because they use to attack the humans and feed off of them without restraint." The woman stated and the other women around the room gasped as they listened to her.

"Melisande!" A larger woman hissed at her looking at me with frightened eyes.

"I have no urge to attack or feed off of any of you, so you don't need to worry." I shook my head at them both. It was true, I can smell their blood and skin and it smelt amazing, but I'm use to smelling things that look and taste amazing but I can't have. Walking around the streets of the town there were tones of places with nice smelling food that made my empty stomach rumble but I knew I couldn't have any of it so I learnt self-control. This is no different.

"You most probably already fed before coming in here didn't you?" Melisande asked ignoring her friend.

"No." I shook my head at her. "I haven't had blood since this morning when I woke up."

"Then what was the blood on your lips when you came in here?" Melisande demanded.

"That was my own. A man named Galen, so that I can protect the Mistress, is training me. He's a bit rough and he broke my nose." I answered her evenly. "That's where the blood on me came from."

"Oh." Melisande muttered looking a little guilty.

I smiled at her. "I'm sorry if I make you all nervous, I don't mean to. I promise that I won't hurt any of you either. I use to live on the streets before this and the Mistress saved me, you all work for her so if I hurt one of you then my Mistress will get annoyed, I don't want her to be upset with me."

"You're different." Melisande agreed to what she said with a nod.

"Um, thank you?" I asked with a small smile.

Melisande sat down beside me. "You're welcome, most of the others of your kind usually just ignore us and do whatever they were told to do. My name by the way is Melisande but most people call me Mercy."

"It's nice to meet you Mercy, I would give you my own name but I don't have one." I said awkwardly.

"How do you not have a name?" Mercy asked looking confused.

"I've lived on the streets since I was five and I can't remember my birth name so I'm waiting till my Mistress gives me a name." I told her leaning back against the bath.

"That must suck." Mercy stated sitting back as well.

"How long have you lived and worked here for?" I asked her not knowing what else to say. I'm not really one for conversations.

"I've lived in this mansion my whole life, I'm lady Beatrice's hand maiden and my mother was the same before me and her mother was before her and so on and so forth." Mercy started explaining.

"And talking about being lady Beatrice's hand maiden, shouldn't you be there right now, it's nearly dinner time." The larger lady from before piped up as she herself got out of the bath.

"Oh shoot, yes." Mercy gasped and quickly got out. "I'll talk to you another time, ah... Purple."

"Purple?" I asked confused as she got dressed into a plain green servants dress.

"Yeah, I didn't know what else to call you and since your eyes are purple, well..." Mercy shrugged with a grin. "Sorry gotta go, see you later."

"Bye." I said back completely confused by that woman as she ran out of the bathroom just as the blonde girl walked in holding a dress.

"Lady Aviva, is waiting for you at the dining hall." The blonde girl said walking to me when she spotted me.

"Thank you Georgia." I smiled at her as I got out and she blushed looking at the ground.

"No problem." Georgia mumbled as I dried myself quickly then changed into the dress. "I'll show you the way." Georgia said and walked quickly out of the bathroom with me following closely behind.

My Mistress was waiting in front of the dinning hall doors and smiled when she saw me. "You're looking much better, my pet, you didn't take a nip at one of my servants in the bathroom now did you?"

"I wouldn't dare." I told her eyes wide in alarm.

"Good, I'm truly shocked and pleased by your self control." My Mistress nodded at me and I breathed out a sigh of relief making her laugh. "Now come on, dinner is waiting." She turned away from me and the guards pushed the doors open and she walked in. There were more people at the table tonight and the windows on the left side were now open showing the grassy hillsides and pastures of the countryside as well as the large silver moon. Beatrice was sitting in the same seat she was in this morning and beside her was Mercy and on the other side of her was Galen, beside him was another blonde haired girl. On the other side of the table was a spare seat where I sat this morning and beside my seat was a brunette girl.

My Mistress walked to her seat at the head of the table and sat down with a smile. "Good evening everyone." She said pleasantly as I sat down beside the brunette who I could tell was nervous by the fast beating of her heart. I took a quick glance at her before I turned my eyes back to Beatrice studying her ethereal beauty.

"You seem happy tonight Aviva." Beatrice said looking at her sister with a raised eyebrow.

"Well of course, that pain in our neck Duke Websneck is finally dead." Aviva told her cheerfully.

Beatrice nodded her head. "Hmm, that's good, he'll stop bugging us about taxes finally."

"It not just the taxes he was complaining about though, we have enough money to pay his stupid taxes." Aviva shook her head. "Whatever, he's gone now and thank the god for it."

"Agreed." Beatrice nodded her head and started eating.

I watched everyone closely after giving a greeting smile to Mercy who nodded back. My Mistress and Beatrice spoke through out the dinner about politics, money and other stuff I wouldn't be able to understand for the life of me. When everyone was done the servants took the plates away. "Now," My Mistress smiled pleasantly. "I believe it's time for a drink."

Georgia walked to her and sat in her lap making me confused until I saw her tilt her head and my Mistress's teeth elongate. I watched as she bit into Georgia's neck and the girl had a look of bliss on her face. Turned away from them to see Beatrice's face at Mercy's neck, making my stomach clench with something I couldn't comprehend right at the moment, and Galen had his girl straddling his waist as he drank from her neck. The sweet smelling liquid filled the air and all my senses went on alert and I felt my own teeth lengthen. "W-would you like some?" The girl beside me asked nervously. Obviously she hasn't done this before like me.

I turned back to my Mistress who had raised her head to look at me her gold eyes shining brighter than before and a drop of blood rolled down her chin from the corner of her mouth. It would have been a horrifying scene if my Mistress weren't so beautiful. "Go ahead, my pet, it's why she is here. Go slow and be careful, think of giving her pleasure instead of pain and it will not hurt her." My Mistress told me and I swallowed, feeling nervous.

"Yes Mistress." I nodded my head before turning to the girl beside me. "I'm sorry if this hurts." I apologised to her in advance before pulling her forward to sit on my lap sideways. I grabbed her hand and entwined our fingers. "Squeeze my hand if it starts to hurt badly or when you get dizzy." I told her and she nodded and I felt her hand trembling. I lifted a hand to move her hair from her neck and she tilted her head so that I could have better access. I thought of giving her pleasure, the same I felt in the bath caused my my Mistress's fingers, instead of pain as I slowly sunk my teeth pass the thin layers of skin until blood pooled into my mouth. I fought for control, stopping myself from biting any harder than I was and kept on thinking about the pleasure I felt this morning. I felt the girl in my arms relax as I swallowed the blood that filled my mouth and I heard her moan meaning that I must be doing something right.

I continued to drink the amazing liquid as slowly as I could make myself as I replayed everything that I went through in the bathroom with my Mistress all the way till my climax. I suddenly felt the girl in my arm tense and I felt her squeeze my hand so I quickly pulled away from her only to see her face red and full of desire. I watched the girl come loose in my arms. She started to shake slightly while panting and moaning.

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