We watch and we are always here.Ĭan see with the greatest clarity, those years when you can give your trust most truly to others, and seek to bring about a perfect happiness for yourself. On the contrary, he was a most strange sort of being, a scholar of the supernatural, a spy upon creatures such as me. He was no great Venetian, no painter, no cleric, no poet, no alchemist, and certainly no member of the Grand Council of Venice. I knew it die moment I penetrated his mind. And on the night that I had first opened rny house to the citizens of Venice, he had come.īut this young mortal had nothing to do with the grand society in which I moved. And he had been watching me for several years He had in fact glimpsed me in grand salons and ballrooms, so I might indeed write this off to my carelessness. Indeed, he had some name for me: vampire. I had Amadeo with whom to share my golden tomb. I had Bianca when I wanted to ramble on about the work of Bellini or my beloved Botticelli. We watch and we are always here.Ĭonversation and that he must be very wise on that account.Īll this his mind gave me rather easily without the young man realizing it, obviously, and then using the Mind Gift I sent a very direct message to him.īut now, with all of Venice receiving me into its finest company, I did not feel such a thing. Nevertheless, it was a stunning promise, that which the young Englishman had made.We offer understanding. What could this mean? What could this be? It struck me with full force that there had been moments in my long life when I would have found his message irresistible, so great had been my loneliness, so great had been my longing to be understood. Scholars? What sort of scholars? And the other words. Then he gave way to utter fear and fled the roof.
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