Page 65 of I Dated a Golden Vampire
Pria blinked.“You can make portals?”
“I developed that after some medical procedures.”Vesta watched Khy for a bit and then saw she was just playing.She broke the latch, turned her to the other side, and got her awake so she attached to the other side.“Sorry.She’s weird that way.”
Pria laughed.“But you learned.”
“Yup.They give you the signals they can figure out.But she likes to go left then right.At least she’s keeping them even, but I will still have to pump after.”
Riro chuckled.“Family trait.”
“Oh, yeah, this is what they look like on duty, but Pria has bigger pecs than I do for support.”
Pria said, “Vesta would beat up the kids who made fun of us, and our grandma tried to tie them flat, saying they weren’t ladylike.Vesta would cut me loose.”
Vesta smiled.“Well, I am stuck here for another ten minutes while little madam has a snack.You don’t have to stay.”
Pria smiled.“I want to stay.I want to know where you were, how you are here, and what you do.”
“Oh, the last one is easy.I kill people.I am a reaper.My call sign is Crimson because all of my emissions are crimson.You two should go and shower and dress.Your clothing sticks out from the salt water.”
“But you will be by yourself.”
“Ysell is coming back.”She gestured to the woman striding back from the village.“Shoo.I don’t need you getting Khy all salty.She’s not a ham.”
Riro snorted but steered her sister away.
Ysell patted her son’s arm as he passed her.
Vesta saw the look in the older woman’s eyes.Ysell sat nearby and smiled.“She was conceived by force?”
“I was sedated for it, but the end result was the same.I am not even sure who the father is, I just know where he is, and I am not going back there.”She sighed.“Could have been a syringe for all I know, but when they let me loose a few days later, she was there.Then, I was sent to the breeder area, and we were confined and pampered, but no one survived past the fourth month.When I did, they started watching me like a hawk, and that was when I made a run for it with a lot of the other girls.I was the only survivor.Everybody else didn’t make it through the force field.”
“Riro found one of the bodies when he went out on a mission.I am guessing he was called by the ones who held you.”
“Probably.”
“Why don’t you take the jewellery off?”
“It’s welded to my skin.”
“What?”
“The Emperor of Lorn marks his concubines, so they always wear his stamp.It’s hot set while we are awake, so we feel the magnitude of it.”
“Oh, sweetie.”
“Thanks to my upbringing, pain is just something to get through.”
“Were you attended when you gave birth?”
“Yes.I had just finished an assignment, and the contractions started, so I went to a healer who had fixed me up a time or two.She delivered Khy and immediately developed a crush.She helped me through labour and then fixed the damage left behind.Khy didn’t emerge easily.She fought me the whole way.”
Ysell winced.“Ouch.”
“Riro was an easy birth?”
“Little asshole just slid out.”Ysell laughed.
“Yeah, it’s fine.I recovered, and I had help.”She smiled.“And then the healer introduced me to his friends, and I had family again and emergency babysitters.They are very into kids.”
