Reborn in Flames

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"Archie?" I said, tilting my head in confusion. The last time I checked, there was no person named Archie living in my house.

"Oh!" Valerie said, her eyes shining in amusement. "Sorry.

Archie's dead. He hangs around me sometimes when he's bored. He was a vampire hunter before he died, so he has a general idea of what vampires should be able to do."

Chuckling, I said, "Just let me know if there's anything I can do to help. I doubt I can surpass Clarissa's teaching skills, but I'm willing to help if I can."

Valerie instantly turned sheepish, turning her head away from me and wringing her hands as she stared at the floor.

"Valerie?" I said, stepping closer. "Are you alright?"

"She hasn't fed." Clarissa answered for her, turning a scolding eye towards Valerie. "The last time she drank blood was when we rescued her.

It was why summoning Sir Lancelot had such an effect on her – she was already weak when she used Sephiroth Graal. Had I known of her ailment, I would have recommended not bringing her to the Rating Game."

Valerie shrank in on herself more and more as Clarissa spoke, her face disappearing beneath her hair as it pulled together in front of her like two halves of a curtain.

"I offered to give her some of my blood, but–" Clarissa was cut off as Valerie exploded out of her shell.

"No! I don't want to hurt any of you again!" Her eyes dashed between us, curling in on herself more and more as she took in our reactions.

"Valerie," I said, exasperated as I walked towards her. "We don't want to see you get hurt either.

If you're deliberately fighting your hunger for fear of hurting us, don't. In fact…" I stepped close to her and rolled up my sleeve, holding my bare arm forward where she'd bitten me before. "Here."

Valerie shook her head, taking a small step back, though her eyes were fixed on my veins. "I hurt you last time. Your fire didn't heal you. If I drank from Clarissa I might not be able to stop."

"Valerie, look at me." When her gaze rose to meet my eyes, I said, "My Immortality didn't heal the small bite marks you left, but it healed everything else.

My blood replenishes faster than you can drain it. I am literally the best choice when it comes to someone to feed on.

I didn't know that you hadn't drank when we fought Seekvaira, and I never would have let you in the arena with us had I known."

Valerie's eyes widened in shock, but I kept talking before she could say anything.

"You're my bishop. That means your health and safety are my responsibility. I'm not going to force you to feed, but I can't in good conscience bring you to any future battles knowing you're suffering in silence."

Valerie's eyebrows furrowed together in deep thought as her eyes fell to my arm once more. She looked up at Clarissa, searching for her opinion, but the witch just narrowed her eyes at her, nodding pointedly towards my arm.

Valerie swallowed anxiously and took a small step forward. Then another. She reached out and gently laid her hands on my arm, licking her lips as her pupils dilated.

"You'll stop me if I hurt you, right?" Valerie said as her eyes fearfully met mine.

I smiled encouragingly. "You won't hurt me, but I will stop you if you do."

Valerie nodded to herself. She opened her mouth and two, sharpened fangs extended past the rest of her teeth.

Her fangs sank into my arm and I felt my blood flow with the force of a tsunami down my arm and into her mouth.

Flame ignited in my veins as my Immortality replaced all the blood that was greedily slurped from my veins.

Almost a full minute passed before Valerie pulled back, gasping for air, a euphoric smile on her face.

She breathed blissfully. Her eyes fell on the two small marks in my skin and looked up at me in a panic.

I just smiled comfortingly at her. "I'm fine. Like I told you, my blood replenishes itself too fast for you to cause any real damage.

The only thing it doesn't fix immediately are your fang marks. I'm honestly kind of curious as to why that is." I said, holding my arm up to look at the marks in question.

"If I may, my king?" Clarissa said, stepping forward and grasping my hand. She turned my arm over and cast a spell over the marks.

"It appears to have something to do with the way in which vampires turn humans into more of their own.

I can assure you that you are not becoming a vampire, but I cannot say any more on the matter."

I shrugged. "That's more than I knew two minutes ago. Thanks, Clarissa." I turned back to Valerie, seeing that she had controlled her breathing and was looking at me anxiously.

"See? Everything's fine. From now on, whenever you're hungry, come find me. I don't want you to starve yourself anymore, okay?"

Valerie nodded shyly. Sephiroth Graal appeared in her hand as she stepped towards me, gently laying her hand over the bite marks in my arm.

When she retracted her glowing hand, my arm was back to normal. She looked up at me with a smile. "Okay. Thank you, Riser."

I smiled back. "You're welcome. Now I'll get out of your hair. I'm sure you were doing something before I interrupted.

Let me know if either of you need anything." With a nod to each of them, I left the room and closed the door behind me, leaving them to their magic lesson.

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"Riser?"

Hellfire tendrils and currents of razor-sharp Wind fell back into me as I turned to face the voice that had just entered my training room. It wasn't anything overly impressive.

The room was about the dimensions of an average swimming pool. The floors were constructed with stone slabs that very clearly divided into patterned squares.

The walls were made of more stone. I got the sense Serafall wanted this room to be durable when she'd made it.

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