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People surround us as snow starts falling, I hear them whisper about bears and wolves increasing the number of attacks lately. We get inside both Helena and I crave to be near the books, but not long after we return to them, both Vampires go hunting.
I keep on reading the Necronomicon, it makes little sense, the rituals seem to interrupt abruptly and the topic changes drastically, still I feel I advance in its understanding.
A rather Girly yell reaches us, Sephiroth jumps out of the room fearing it might be Genoma or some other foe. He returns a while later, telling me that Jhonny be Good, the rockstar is here. Whatever brings him here is of little interest to me, I return my eyes to the strange text before me. Sephiroth decides it is prudent to go look for Helena, as he opens the door, the lights go out, I feel rather frustrated since I cannot continue reading. But the lights come back just a couple of minutes later.
Sephiroth returns and tells me that I should come with him and look for the Vampires, I know he does not want to leave me alone, but I would really prefer to stay and read, still I step out of the room holding the Necronomicon. We find the Vampires climbing up the stairs, they are excited about the rockstar being around, just as we find them Sephiroth tells us that we might not be safe around here and describes a strange girl, blue eyes, curly blond hair, and she appeared on the TV before Sephiroth right during the strange blackout. Helena and I tell him about the strange girl we have seen, and that until now she´s done nothing but scare us, that we should be safe, besides, sunrise is too close for the Vampires to risk fleeing.Besides, she is quite interested in meeting Jhonny be Good or whatever his name is. She discusses briefly with Sephiroth and manages to convince him to go upstairs and meet him. I simply turn around and head to my precious Necronomicon and try to delve into its meaning.
They come back Helena looks strange, her usually bright eyes are red, as if stoned or something, still it is unkown to me what can cause that on Vampires, Sephiroth asks if I have finished reading, he is being too pushy, so I try to make him shut up, I look into his eyes and hold him, and as I am about to whisper to him to leave me alone, Helena jumps between us and breaks my grasp as she yells that I am trying to betray them. Just as I am about to ask what she means, Kadaj stretches his hand to me handing me an old photograph, I look at it, it is quite old, Four people are in it, three people standing that cannot be seen clearly.probably due to the aged paper, but the fourth is quite clear, a young woman sitting in the middle of the other three, with the hands of two on her shoulders, but the woman looks like me. It startles me, I turn the picture around and find a date and place it was taken in Miscatonic, but scarcely months before I was created. The woman in the picture is the original owner of this body, I cannot resist but touching the suture that keeps my head in place.and wonder what was she doing here, for the first time I take interest on knowing who this body was before becoming this monster.
My brief trance is broken after Helena runs out yelling something about us not heeding her, Sephiroth follows her and stops her, I do not pay mu8ch attention to their talk, my eyes are still fixed on the smiling young girl sitting among blurry people.

Loz arrives not long before sunrise, we excuse ourselves and go, not much happens, I am already weary and fall asleep, still while I sleep nightmares invade my mind, the dark haired girl again, now standing next to a blond girl with blue eyes, just as Sephiroth described, both dancing next to me, and we are surrounded by thausands of people, most of them Chinese. They each stretch a hand and make me join them as the dance in circles.
I wake up violently, Loz is awakened by me, asking what happened, I tell him I am all right, but I am covered in markings of many hands, Loz cannot see them ,but it is most notorious for me, with this half dead body whose skin has no elasticity.
We go downstairs, the police have come, and are carrying two body bags, I am about to ask a policeman what happened when Jhonny appears and asks the very same question, seems the owners of the place, the two old people passed away, and that on both they found a strange hole near their shoulders.
The moment looses any respect when Loz jumps out and asks Jhonny to give him an autograph, most annoying of all is that he wants Jhonny to sign my butt, I strictly say no, I am not Jhonny´s fan.
I still manage to make Loz carry me upstairs, I want to return to the Necronomicon.
Not long have I resumed my reading when Loz starts to rub against me. Again I have to be firm and tel him I do not want anything of that right now. I keep on reading but as I do it hits me: I have to look for Eihenhoff, or whatever his name is, Lelouch gave me his picture. I jump out of my seat and go next room and throw the Necronomicon on Helena´s lap and run outside, Sephiroth tries to stop me, but I firmly tell him to let me go, this startles him and he looses his grip. I step out of the hotel and jump into the first cab that passes by. I tell the driver to get me to Miscatonic, as the cab accelerates, I receive a call, I take out my cellphone, it is Sephiroth, I tell him I am heading to Miscatonic to fix some personal matters, and hang up on him, and turn off the gadget.
As I put the phone away, a crow jumps out of the passenger´s seat onto the headrest, and the driver turns to me, greeting me maliciously and calling me Grey Witch, I have no idea of what he is talking about, he just keeps rambling as he drives, just then I feel an urge to go to where Helena is, but it is impossible for me. When the car stops I am dragged into the library and many stories below the surface into a strange little room where I am tied. He keeps on callingme Grey Witch, telling me how Lelouch came to this university thirty years ago and how he and his team touched his precious books, still this man does not look old enough to have been here thrity years ago, I am a bit confused and tell him that I do not know what he is talking about. But he believes me not. He reaches for my arm, and stretches it out, it is then that I see his fangs, he bites into my wrist, and drinks greedily after saying how well he remembered the sensation, after just some seconds he throws my arm and steps back as he spits my humor, claiming it to be one of my spells. Just then he makes the very mistake I had been waiting for, he looks directly at my eyes, I then show him my true magic, and have him release me and explain me what Lelouch had been doing here thirty years ago. He tells me that Lelouch came with a group, they read many books, but did not take the Necronomicon, and that I was among them. I asked for the names of the group, as an answer I get VV, Charles, Marianne, all people I have met or at least seen. I ask for the books they read, but he does not know. I turn and head to the door, but again he tries to capture me, I get tired of him and whisper some instructions, my fire burns and alters his mind, so he leaves me alone, and is left clucking like a chicken instead of talking. I hear him cluck as I walk out the door, I find Mandragora standing there before me, he asks me what I am doing here, and I simply tell him that his friend has invited me a cup of coffee, he believes me, to my surprise and satisfaction.
I walk away, I reach the exterior and walk in the snow, I try to reach Helena, something within me makes me want to go to her, I head through the woods to the road. After some minutes I finally feel her nearby, I step into the road and a bloodstained van aproaches me, within it are Helena, Kadaj and Sephiroth as well as the Rockstar.
I get in and feel the urge to get to Helena dissapear, but I do feel we are in danger, A bear jumps out of the woods and starts to threaten us, Kadaj breaks the bloodstained windshield, Helena complains about it not being his van, but it is not a good idea to focus on such, still Kadaj manages to make the bear leave using his Vampiric powers.
With the urge gone, I jump out of the Van, and try heading to Miscatonic, Kadaj runs, superhumanly fast, and stops me, Sephiroth holds me, the Vampire then asks me what I am doing and why, I feel how my fire fights to resist him, but fails, and I tell him that I am looking for Eihenhoff and that it is because Lelouch told me to. My little secret exposed in front of Helena, I fear being reprehended, but it turns out Kadaj too was told by Lelouch to look for this man, this makes her consider and suggests we find out what Eihenhoff has to say in all this.
But Jhonny has witnessed all this, and is quite confused, I try to erase the memory of all this, but something in him makes it hard for me to do it, he resists, but Kadaj manages to save the day and convinces him that about this he saw, he would only talk to us.
We get to Miscatonic, Mandragora is there, dobermans standing next to him, he greets us. We ask him about Eihenhoff, and he explains that he has been in the University´s administration for more than fourty years, we ask if he knows of the Masquerade, Mandragora denies it, we then ask him to take us to him, but just then he notices Jhonny, and asks him to come with him, just as he does that, he somehow seems quite trustworthy.