Who to Trust

**Chapter 20**

**Who to Trust**

"I had spent the last few hundred years
trusting my instincts and for the last few weeks of my long life... I had done
the opposite. Something had felt off... with Anabel...Sadie... but right under
me...someone I thought was my friend and helping me turned out to
be....something else. Something strong...something powerful. An old friend from
the war...had become a vampire... I was not sure if he were a friend or
enemy... and poor Inkil... caught in the middle..."

Celeste and Inkil sit by a fire as they eat next to
an unconscious and tied up Fernand.

Translated in French.

Inkil: What are we going to do?

Celeste: To be safe, just in case, can we talk in
your native tongue? (saying in Egyptian)

Translated in Egyptian.

Inkil: I'm sorry.. I wasn't aware...

Celeste: I'm not sure if I can trust Fernand...let
alone Victor.

Inkil: He...He did save us...(saying as he continues
to eat.)

Celeste: That is what was seen but a few days ago I
was under the impression he was a runaway slave in need of help... turns out
that was a lie... and let's not forget the fact he can fly. So who knows what
he is or even if there is anything in Paris... could be just another lie... or
worse.

Inkil: Or not... I... I have seen things as I would
build them... in my years with the sisters... most which I wish I could
forget... death... torture...

Celeste: (looks curiously) What...What's your point?

Inkil: I know lies... when someone is lying...
holding something back for their own selfish reasoning... your friend was being
truthful...

Celeste stops eating.

Celeste: Inkil... are the sisters planning or doing
something? Do you know what it is?

Inkil: I... I can’t say...

Celeste gets up and looks Inkil in the eyes, grabs
his face

Inkil: Hey what...what are you doing?!

Celeste says a chant and his eyes glow yellow for
split second.

Inkil: (Gasping) What... what was that...

Celeste: I released whatever magical hold the
sisters had on you...compulsion spell if I am right?

Inkil: Compel....

Celeste: It's something they do to push memories out
your head or make you do something they want... anything... like not tell
something to someone...you've been under it for who knows how long.

Inkil: How...

Celeste: I don’t know how they do it.... they just
do it... I want to trust them but there's something...

Inkil: No I mean how did you do that?

Celeste: I have my own... gifts...

Inkil: Magic?

Celeste: (Celeste finishes eating)

Inkil: I guest your friend wasn’t the only one
hiding something...

Celeste: Get some rest. We leave at dawn. (saying as
she starts to make a place to sleep outside)

Inkil: What about him?

Celeste: I will take care of him. You just get some
rest.

Inkil begins to make a bed to lay down.

Inkil: So are...are you going to do it?

Celeste: Do what?

Inkil: Meet him... in Paris.

Celeste: We do not know if the so called meeting is
a trap or not and I sure as hell am not walking into one with that lying
bastard, now... sleep. (saying as she lays down and turns away from Inkil)

Inkil: Too bad... I have always wanted to see
Paris... (laying down himself)

Back at Mondragon Manor the Mondragon family begin
to conclude their family dinner and meeting as they walk toward the exit
together.

Translated in Vampyric.

Barca: So with exactly how long would it take to
develop these... new abilities?

Anabel: Well it took a couple days for mine to
manifest... and Sadie..

Sadie: Mine was almost immediately if not minutes
after...

Anabel: So it is just a matter of time I suppose.

Gillian: Keep me informed of your
progress...Melody..Kildare...

Melody: What about mother?

Barca: Is that a serious question?

Melody: I'm sorry mother I...

Gillian: Reports of the lycans demise will continue
as well. DO not let this new finding stop what matters to the vampire nation
most.

All of the Mondragon siblings nod and agree.

Gillian: I still aspect something good to come from
you two at the next council meeting....

Anabel: But father...

Sadie: What would you call this?

Gillian: Absolutely nothing...

Anabel: ... (looking confused)

Sadie: Nothing?

Gillian: We did not meet tonight... you did not
inform me of these new abilities we all share... I... nor your mother new
anything of this.

Barca: This meeting is strictly off the record...

Gillian: Are we clear?

Sadie: Yes Father.

Kildare: But father what of the others?

Gillian: Others?

Melody: The others of our line father... the
sires... progenies.

Kildare: If these new.... powers are to fall upon
everyone in our line wouldn't it be wise to find a sense of control before this
becomes a situation.

Barca: He has a point darling... these new abilities
can break this news out among the vampire nation... raising panic if not civil
war. Both which I advise against right now.

Gillian: Of course...

All stop outside the manor waiting for Gillian to
answer, as the sun begins to rise in the distance. Pacing, everyone waits in anticipation.
All the siblings begin to sizzle and smoke as the sun raises slowly and more
minutes pass.

Barca: Dear... the children.

Looking at the siblings as the sizzle and show
slight pain.

Gillian: I'm sorry... I tend to forget none of you
have ascended yet... perhaps I am getting old (chuckles) Simple... call your
progenies and sires if any...explain to them that anything they ... discover...
is to be reported back to you and kept strictly silent. You in return will
report to me anything they discover...Anyone refusing this... handle it...

Kildare: But father...

Gillian: And if they refuse simply let me know...
and I will handle it...

Kildare: But father that can take weeks... months
even.

Barca: Then you better start now..

Melody: Surely there must be an easier way...

Gillian: There isn’t... this is a order! (saying as
his eye glow red) (Calmly) Darling... (saying as he takes Barca's hand and
flies off into the sunrise)

Melody and Kildare are covered quickly with large
blankets by their servants and retreat into their own carriages which ride off
in the opposite directions they came. Anabel and Sadie also run into the
shadows of their home.

Anabel: FUCK! (saying as she attempts to stop her
skin from smoking and burning runs into the dining room and starts to drink the
blood on the table)

Sadie: That actually went better than I expected
(saying as she drinks a cup of blood).

Anabel: And how do you figure that sister?!

Sadie: Well we are still alive for one...and both of
us still have our fangs.

Calming down.

Anabel: Well... there is that... but all that effort
to give us power and he wants to keep it secret?! This was supposed to be our
big finale! Our big time for independence! No more council meetings no more ass
kissing! Just free to live the vampire life...with the occasional rule of
course but it's better than nothing... so sick of the bullshit.

Sadie: You're getting  ahead of yourself... should try a little
optimism. For all we know the event will be enough to amaze the council and
deliver us into our independence.

Anabel: Right... so what do we do now?

Sadie: We protect our assets. Make sure the
shipments stay on course... kill lycans... make sure our families black smith isn’t
killed?

Anabel: Right... I... I will see into that.

Sadie: No what you will do is get some rest and
relax for the day.

Anabel: (with a smirk) You're giving me orders now?

Sadie: No...just a sisterly suggestion. Tonight was
ours... lets gather our strength and stay strong with what’s to come. (saying
as she begins to walk into the house further)

Anabel: Wait where are you going?

Sadie: To do as father commands and notifying my
husband. (continues to walk)

Anabel: Father said call our sires and
progenies...not notify them.

Sadie: You think I would pull my husband off the
quest I sent him on just to tell him one thing? Fuck that and fuck dad. (saying
as she leaves the room)

Anabel smiles pleasingly.

Three days pass with no lycan activity as Inkil and
Celeste pass through the land with an unconscious Fernand tied up under a
blanket; camping occasionally and hunting when they need for food. They
continue to walk and converse.

Translate in Egyptian.

Inkil: He sure has been silent these last few
days... what... what do you think your friend did to him?

Celeste: He didn't... it's me...

Inkil: You... what do you mean you?

Celeste: Nothing...

Inkil: Listen you can't keep me in the dark about
certain things... if I wanted to endure that I'd have stayed with the
mistresses. (saying as he stops)

Celeste stops a few feet ahead before she realizes
Inkil is behind her.

Celeste: Oh come on.... we are almost there.

Inkil: Where? Where are we going? How are you keeping
this...vampire asleep? What are you?!

Celeste walks up to Inkil and attempts to take his
hand.

Inkil: Don’t touch me...

Celeste: Listen... I know you have allot you have to
deal with right now and this adds to it...and even coming up... and I definitely
do not want you having anything else to worry about. Trust me.... come here
(Inkil stays still as Celeste walks over to Fernand)

Celeste chants a small spell over Fernand as he
begins to wake up and falls right back to sleep again.

Inkil: What...what was that? (saying in shock) Was
that magic?

Celeste: Say that as if it's your first time
seeing... I thought the mistresses would have shown you or you would have
caught a glimpse of something.

Inkil: I have seen things... heard...yes but nothing
like that (saying as the two begin to walk)

Celeste: So the mistresses can't bend or manipulate
the elements or cast spells?

Inkil: You can do that?

Celeste: Of cour... wh...what have you seen with
magic?

Inkil: Nothing too much...um the singing thing...

Celeste: Yes... the siren song spell... how do they
do that?

Inkil: Um...I cant... I mean I know...

Celeste: We're here...

Saying as the two walk up to the large city entrance
of Paris.

Inkil: What is this place?

Celeste: Paris... (saying with smile as she walks
away)... you coming?

Inkil starts to run to catch up.

Inkil: But I thought... I thought you said we weren’t
coming. here? That this meeting could be a trap?

Celeste: Well... I have had some time to think about
it...

Inkil: And...well what? (saying as he catches up)

Celeste: If this was a trap why exactly would he
bother? I mean he could have finished us off in our sleep... or even taken care
of us like he did Fernand here... so why didn’t he is the question?

Inkil: You do have a point...

Celeste:
Exactly... plus something hasn’t been right since I arrived...
something... off (saying as she looks at Inkil who looks away nervously) like I
said I want to trust the sisters...

Inkil: ...

Celeste: Come on...let’s find somewhere to get
something to eat.

Inkil: What about him?

Celeste: Fernand? He should be out for a few hours.
We will be back before then...come on.

Back at the Mondragon Manor, Anabel arrives in the
war room where Sadie sits looking at the huge map that shows the progression of
her shipments.

Translated in Vampyric.

Anabel: You seem....focused.

Sadie: Just received word of time for the shipment
arrival from messenger...

Anabel: And?

Sadie: Arrival just under 5 years...

Anabel: That's promising... should bring us around
the time of council meeting.

Sadie: Will be cutting it close...

Anabel: Reminds me... heard from Melody...she thinks
we hindered her and Kildare from gaining any abilities and made up the story of
everything (chuckles) because mother has apparently developed one recently.

Sadie: Did she happen to say what it was?

Anabel: No... but apparently mom knows what she was
doing the other night without physically being there.

Sadie: Guess her secrets are out....

Anabel: Oh you mean the fact she likes to gorge
herself in the blood of men and take their women for herself? Was really no
secret... I mean look at the track record of men vanishing and the fact all her
servants are their wives (chuckles).

Sadie: Still... it is better to be safe... if mother
has found a way to see what we do and not be around... we have to be more
careful with you know... (saying as she nods)

Anabel: Already taking care of it... have you heard
from your sire yet?

Sadie: No... but it just means he is following the
instructions I gave him to not write or come here, so there is nothing I have
to worry about.... I can feel it.

Anabel: That's good... I guess...

Sadie: Hmmm...

Anabel: Something wrong?

Sadie: Just a small hunch... that something is wrong
or about to go wrong?

Anabel: Like what?

Sadie: I am not sure...but it's something... have
you heard anything from...?

Anabel: Not since the other night... do you want me
to...?

Sadie: No... if mother is watching us somehow we can’t
draw suspicion.... Give them until tomorrow then send a message by owl or raven
to find them, if no response... I go myself.

Anabel: Alright... but if you ask me...it's probably
nothing. (walks off out the room)

Back in Paris, Celeste and Inkil find a small place
that had room, shelter as well as providing food in the down stairs restaurant.
Celeste and Inkil talk as an unconscious Fernand sits in the wagon.

Inkil eats as if he hasn’t eaten in days, fast and
savagely.

Translated in Egyptian

Celeste: Hungry huh?

Inkil: Starving... maybe... I don’t know... why...

Celeste: It's all the walking.... it builds up a
hunger... experienced it allot when growing up...then later with training for
days in and out.

Inkil: Training....where? (saying as he slows down
eating)

Celeste: Japan... I spent allot of time there...sharpening
my skills and technique as a warrior..with not only weapons but also my mind,
body...and spirit.

Inkil: Spirit...you mean... magic...

Celeste: Shhh (whispering) Keep your voice down.
It's not really something people know of or accept. (Inkil nods) Anyway...
magic is the blood stream of the universe... it flows...through everything.
You...me... these people... this table... it's everywhere. (saying as she
manipulates a candle to die out and inflame again)

Inkil: Did you...learn that in Japan?

Celeste: No...but I did teach it there...that's
another story. Anyway, my mother taught me...as well as some friends...few
family members...other loved ones. Wasn’t really good for a while but
then...things changed...

Inkil: So that's how you survived against the
werewolves these last few weeks... magic.

Celeste: Yes... when needed...your weapons helps as
well of course.

Inkil: And the mistresses.... do they know?

Celeste: I have my secrets, just as they have
theirs.... which is where you come in Inkil.

Inkil: Me?

Celeste: You've been around the mistresses allot
longer than I have Inkil... since you were a boy from what I understand...
You've heard things... seen things... death... torture? What do you know of
these?

Inkil: Well... um...

Celeste: I've satisfied your curiosity...I simply
wish for the same respect in return.

Inkil: I'm not sure I know what you mean or what I
can tell you...

Celeste: Well for starters... how it is your mistresses
can do things like compulsion and the siren song. They are enchantments only
someone of magical descent or potential can do.

Inkil continues to eat faster and nervously.

Celeste: Until recently I had no idea vampires even
existed but I do remember being told....that only those attached to life can
do...

Inkil: I'm sorry... I don’t know anything... (Saying
as he stops eating, gets up and walks toward the wagon)

Celeste leaves payment on the table and follows
Inkil.

Celeste: You know... in my hundreds of years I've
trained in many arts... including detecting when people are being untruthful.
You know... just as you can see when people are telling lies.

Inkil: ...

Celeste: You know I thought I was doing you favor of
getting you out of the manor to experience life before you are turned but
now...

Inkil: A favor? (chuckles) you brought me from one
hell hole into another! I was safer at the manor... I had my weapons...
fire...food...privacy when I wanted...wine when I needed! I could piss without
fearing my cock was going to be bitten off by a fucking animal in the shadows!
Ha! You are just like them! Favor?! Fuck you! (storms off walking away)

Celeste jumps in front of him stopping him in his
tracks.

Inkil: What the...how did...

Celeste: If I wanted to stop you I simple would...
however... you are right. Since leaving it has been nothing but strife on my
part for both of us. I am sorry for that.

Inkil: ...

Celeste: I tell you what... give me another day. If
things have not turned around by tomorrow night... I will take you back to the
manor...the week is almost up anyway right? What can you lose?

Inkil: .... (looks at her)

Celeste: You have my word.

Inkil starts to walk back over to the wagon with
Celeste.

Inkil: That was very sincere of you...

Celeste: How do you mean?

Inkil: It was just.... I don’t know... nice.

Celeste: (smiles) Why don’t you head upstairs...get
some rest.... I got a room for the night, tomorrows a new day.

Inkil: What about you?

Celeste: Going to wake Fernand... have a word among
other things.

Inkil: Are you sure that's safe?

Celeste: Don't worry about me... I will be ok.

Inkil heads inside and up to the room upstairs above
the tavern. She then waits for Inkil's light to go out in the tavern room, then
cast a protection spell on his room until her return and rides off into the nearby
woods with Fernand still asleep in the wagon covered by a large blanket. As
they enter the woods, the wagon stops, Fernand wakes up and Celeste is nowhere
to be found.

Fernand: Um hello? Francis? I mean...Celeste? Are
you out there?

A dead rabbit soon falls to Fernand's lap. He pauses
for a second and then begins to drink the blood from it savagely.

Standing high in a tree above in shadows.

Celeste: So you can't even hold back from a dead
carcass... you really do have no control.

Fernand: I'm sorry... it's the hunger....I...
(slurping) I cant... you know what it's like.

Jumps and lands on the wagon's edge.

Celeste: Actually I don’t...  (hands him another rabbit) I'm not like you
at all.... so never went through it. (sits down) But I would like to understand
it.

Fernand: It's like (continues to drink the blood)
you're going hungry... like... (begins drinking he blood from the second
rabbit) like you're starving and haven’t eaten or drank in days. But once
you're full...you're better... it kind of just goes away.

Celeste: So it does stop...

Fernand: The rabbits... they're like...finger
food...not enough... I need more (saying as he looks toward the city)

Celeste: Don't even try it...I will knock you out
longer than three days....

Fernand: That that...was you? But why?

Celeste: You attacked my friend, I had to.

Fernand: Over a human? But why? He... he...

Celeste: He is my friend... and under my protection...
a friend...which is what I thought you were.

Fernand: We are friends...going back to the war...

Fernand calms himself.

Celeste: Listen... I've got a couple hundred years
on you...so my strength isn’t the only thing that has grown...patience as well.
With that said... I am willing to work and help you but we have to do this my
way... out here we are all cattle to something much worse... so you follow my
lead or we are all dead! Understand?

Fernand: Yes, yes I do...

Celeste: Alright... (stands up) now...let's find you
a big enough meal to settle your hunger... tomorrow we start fresh...

The two speed off into the shadows to hunt.

Back at Mondragon Manor the next morning, Anabel
sleeps in her room as hours pass through the day in her bed room. Sadie sits in
the shadows of the war room staring at her map in deep thought as a servant
arrives.

Translated from French.

Servant girl: Mistress... (nervously) you have a
message that has just come in by raven. (saying as she enters)

Sadie: Set it on the table and get out.

The servant does so and leaves almost immediately.
Sadie picks up the message to read it and just as she does another knocks at
the door minutes later.

Sadie: What the fuck?! Enter!

Servant male enters this time.

Servant male: (Nervously) Mistress...another...another
message h...has arrived.

Sadie: Great....now get the fuck out! Hold all incoming
messages by raven. (saying as she kicks the servant out and slams the door)

As Sadie sits back down and begins to open the first
message another knock comes to the door. Frustrated and annoyed she speeds to
the door, swings it open and turns the servant into stone as he hands her
another message. She takes the message, closes and locks the door. As she opens
each message one by one a single shocked expression crosses her face. She then
storms off out of the room, pushing the stoned statue over, breaking it, and
speeds off through the shadows of the castle. Abruptly opening Anbel's room
door, waking her.

Waking suddenly as Sadie throws the messages on the
bed.

Translated from Vampyric.

Anabel: What the hell?!

Sadie: Look! (gesturing at the messages as she
throws them to the bed)

Anabel looks through the messages. As she looks he
face grows worried as she shifts through and sees drawings. The first one shows
Anabel in her room pleasuring herself as she watches two servant girls have
sex. The second one shows Sadie sitting alone in the war room and looking at
her map. The third shows the two talking together in the war room. Each reading
"I...see...you."

Sadie: I'd say we have a serious problem don’t you?

Anabel: What the hell is this....?

Sadie: The bad feeling I told you about maybe?

Anabel: No... this ..this is...

Sadie: It's mother...

Anabel: No.... it can't be.

Sadie: Look at the hand writing Anabel... it
is...(saying as she starts to pace)

Hours pass into night as the two contemplate the
drawings in the war room.

Anabel: If it's mother then...how is she doing it?

Sadie: Obvious it's her fucking new ability...but
what's important is how? How is she doing it?

Anabel: Seem to be the puzzle for today... listen we
been at this since the morning...

Sadie: Lets go down the list again...

Anabel groans in annoyance.

Sadie: Father can read thoughts.... you can heal
anything... I can turn anything into stone...Kildare...nothing
yet..Melody...nothing as well. FUCK! We have too much going on for it to be
fucked up right now... (saying as she continues to pace frantically)

Anabel grows curious more curious to the nature and
angle of the drawing as she hold them up.

Anabel: Sadie..what.. the window that angles to the
war room...is about where this angle would be if an artist was drawing it...

Sadie: What's that have to do with anything?

Anabel: Shut up and look... (starts showing the
drawings) this angle is perfect from the window in my room. (Sadie grows more
interest)

Sadie: You maybe on to something... this is the same
window in the war room but slightly different.

Anabel: So mother can see through windows? But how?
(saying as an owl shows up in the window)

Sadie: How...how indeed (saying as the both look at
the owl)

Back in Paris, Inkil wakes to find Celeste changing
in the next room.

Translated from French.

Inkil: Oh...I am sorry my lady was not aware you
awake yet (saying as he looks away)

Celeste: You're alright. I've been up all
night...you however...slept through breakfast and lunch... hope you don't mind
but I continued without you. You seemed so tired. (saying as she continues to
dress) Come on..Pack up. We leave in ten.

Inkil: Ten? Well...where are we going? (saying as he
starts to get dressed)

Celeste: First we get some food in you... then...we
have some fun.

Inkil:  I don’t
understand...Fun? (saying as they walk down stairs and up to the wagon)

Sitting on the wagon ready to drive it.

Fernand: Oh yes.... lots of fun...and I know the
perfect place. (saying with a smile)

Back at the Manor.

Translated in Vampyric.

Anabel: So mother can see through the eyes of
birds....

Sadie: I don’t think it's just birds...Melody has
dogs...many dogs all over the place and in her house..and of course women whom
she only keep in her bed room...

Anabel: No dogs allowed....

Sadie: A bird can't get close even in the window
without being scared off. It has to be all animals... all.

Anabel: So mother can see through the eyes of
animals...perfect.

Sadie: And people...

Anabel: Great.

Sadie: Your definition of great is not....(stops
suddenly) fuck...fuck!

Anabel: What?

Sadie: The message...did you hear anything from...?!

Anabel: No not at all but....shit!

Sadie: Shit what?

Anabel: I gave orders to send a raven at night fall
to one of the servants!

Both vamp speed off to find the servant that sent
the raven. Instead they are told by other servants he sent the raven that
morning so he would not forget and also find out that the servant Sadie turned
to stone and shattered was responsible.

Sadie and Anabel argue and blame each other.

Sadie: How the hell was I suppose to know he was the
servant? FUCK! Next time do it yourself! AS I said!

Anabel: Do not point the finger at me...I am not the
hot tempered bitch between us!

Sadie: Careful...I am allot older and stronger than
you!

Anabel: Seven years is nothing! (saying as the two
get in each other’s face)

Calming down.

Sadie: Maybe...just maybe mother doesn’t know
about..her or Inkil yet.

Anabel: It is a possibility...and what if she has
found out?

Sadie: Let me figure that out. (saying as she walks
off)

Anabel: Where are you going now?

Sadie: To fix this!

Back in Paris. A couple hours pass as Fernand drives
the wagon with Celeste and Inkil in the back on their way to the other side of
the city, right outside of it.

Translated from Egyptian,

Inkil: I...I don’t understand, what is going on
right now?

Celeste: I promised you I would start showing and
helping you live life before you are made vampire... I am keeping my word. If
one can’t be true to themselves...they cannot be true to others.

Inkil: That's great and all...but I meant more
so...(looks at Fernand as he hums a tune) your friend...he seems...different.

Celeste: We had a long talk while you slept.

Inkil: In the day time?

Celeste: Was away from sunlight...mostly... but we
worked some things out...he also helped me understand some things.

Inkil: I don’t think I understand...like what?

Celeste: Like there's a way to live with what he
is...and what you will become.

Wagon slows down to a stop in from a large public
like saloon.

Translated in French.

Fernand: Not sure exactly what you two are saying
but we are here. (saying with a smile on his face as the three of them pull up
to the saloon filled with a variety of men and women throughout)

The three park the horse and wagon and begin walking
to the front of the saloon.

Inkil: I've never been to one of these before...
what's it like?

Fernand: Lots of drinking lots of pussy...all you
need to know. Whoo! (saying as he runs off into the saloon upon entering)

Inkil: Your friend...he seems...a lot better... what
did you do?

Celeste: I will explain later... for now...first
rounds on me. (saying as they walk up to the bar)

The bearded bartender hands them two mugs and a
pitcher of wine. Celeste pours both a cup to the rim and proposes a toast as they
sit down to a small table..

Celeste: To trusting new friends (the two toast and
drink)

Inkil sips.

Celeste: Whets the matter you've never drank before?

Inkil: No... well once...S..Sasha stole and brought
wine for us to drink from the cellar once... We had been working the fields
most of the day then cleaning after a party. She thought we could use it and no
one would miss a bottle of wine... we were only 16.

Celeste: Interesting... How did that go?

Inkil: Not well...She was found out the next
night... being the only one with a key to the cellar. I knew nothing would
happen to me so... took the blame on her behalf.

Celeste: That was very honorable of you.

Inkil: Not sure about that...I got ten lashings for
stealing...Sasha... 15.

Celeste: But ...you..you don’t have a mark on you...
most lashing leave marks... I've seen your back.

Inkil: The mistresses don’t like their favorites to
have any markings...we bore the wounds for a week as reminder... then...they
healed us.

Celeste: Sounds like it was a rough time...

Inkil: (drinks more wine) She was my friend...
(saying sorrowfully)

Celeste: To Sasha... ( saying as she holds her mug
up for toast)

Inkil accepts her toast and the two drink, but
Celeste makes Inkil finish his quicker.

Inkil: (coughing) Whoa... whew... trying to get me
kill me or something? (saying with a smile chuckling)

Celeste: (chuckles) You honestly think I would need
wine just to do that? (Gestures to a woman across the saloon who had been
looking at the two since they walked in. She has light skin and wears sexy
lingerie with corset) Besides who would I be if I broke my word (saying as the
woman walks up)

Inkil: Um...sorry miss but I think you have the
wrong table.

Celeste: But you have the right people...what's your
name?

Woman: Dominique

Celeste: Please to meet you...I'm Celeste...this is
my friend...Inkil. It's his birthday... (Inkil looks puzzled) I want you to
please...show him a good time. (saying as she jingles her pouch with money
inside)

Growing Nervous.

Inkil: Um... no um...Dominique that's quite
alright...

Celeste: Give us a minute, please. (the woman backs
away from the table and over to the bar) Is there something wrong?

Inkil: Um...no...I mean..yes... I'm sorry... I
just... I don't know.

Celeste: Listen... You don't have to do anything you
don’t want...

Inkil: Thank you.

Celeste: But...

Translated into Egyptian.

Celeste: I made you a promise...and I intend to keep
it... if this isn’t how I am open for suggestions.

Inkil: I know... it's just...I've never...done this
before..

Celeste: I kind of figured that... but if you do not
try to experience new things you never will enjoy yourself, especially in the
time provided.

Inkil: You are right...

Celeste: Plus...I really do not want to break my
word...there is no honor in it.

Inkil nods. The two see Fernand walk off with
another prostitute upstairs into one of the rooms.

Celeste: I'll go keep an eye on him...you...start
having some fun... (saying as she gets up from the table, walks over to the
woman and pays her for her service and ventures toward the room Fernand is
going)

As she goes up the stairs she sees the woman, Dominique,
walk back to the table. She then sees Inkil leave the table with the woman hand
in hand and venture the opposite staircase going up stairs minutes later; and
smiles. Celeste then walks past the room with Fernand to listen behind the
closed door as he savagely has sex with the prostitute he picked up. She walks
through the halls toward the end to a balcony that sits over the side of the
building. Two people are having sex on the balcony, Celeste hands them money to
leave, which they take and do so. She sits and looks into the night as a raven
flies down with a message. Celeste takes the message and begins to read it
until she is interrupted by Victor sitting behind her on the opposite ledge..

It's about time you showed up... I was starting to think otherwise.