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“He determined to compel her to come back to his home with hiuinea pigs But when he approached her and tried to put her under a thrall it didn’t work, she looked at hiered and intrigued by the fact that this woman remained unaffected by his superior vampire compulsion skills,” Rita stops to roll her eyes, “followed her discretely to her house, broke in, knocked her out, tied her up, and brought her back to his lab where she became his newest fascination”
Rita puts a hand to her sto “The stories say that he basically kept her alive while dissecting her piece by piece in search of evidence as to why she was different from other humans, in the potency of her blood and also in her resistance to compulsion For ans, ca she waswas, in all of his experimentations, Dr Beckenbauer never once ventured to actually drink this woht be poisonous and that hy it was so enticing to hi in the way of results, Beckenbauer took the wos into her”
“What he found in her was not poison, but a blood so powerful it changed the very co His already impenetrable skin became even more so, to the point alile, with better reflexes He also couldn’t stop drinking frory of vamps to drain a person dry The woman died and the scientist had become a whole new kind of va this woman’s blood, that he’d live forever instead of only a thousand years”
“The er sensitive to the sun, and he could venture out during the day without the usual consequences He named the woman’s blood “The Ultimate Power” or die Äußerste Macht because it could render a va was that once the other vahtened abilities he was the one to becoed and studied him just as he’d done to the woman, tortured him until he revealed the source of his indestructibility However, what becah at first Emeric had been powerful to the point of ian to pass he started to weaken He aged and aged until sixbut a shrivelled oldhim theorised that perhaps because Emeric had drank the woman dry he’d consumed too much of a blood that a vampire would only require a very small amount of to become safely immortal”
“Organised groups began searching for humans with the same blood as Emeric’s woman, and after many years of research and study they discovered that there were others out there with these unique genetics Their findings showed that the blood of die Äußerste Macht was extreh female bloodlines To date, there have only been four or five wole drop of her blood will render a vaer andtheht The problem is that only one of these handful of women were discovered by actual vampires The others were hunted down by the Slayers, experiain the power of their blood”
I stare blankly out thefor a ed up brain “So – what you’re saying is that I’ot this power in my blood that can make a vampire immortal And that the Slayers will most likely kill me before I can ever be used to the benefit of their enemies”
“That’s about it in a nutshell, deary,” says Alvie sombrely
Rita scowls and gives hi fromyour mother do in the vision, you are one of these rare wo to find out about you You see, the spell itnessed your mother cast was one that can only be mastered by a very powerful and learned witch,” she stops and smiles, “which yourthat would hide the fact that you are die Äußerste Macht to any vaht come across What the vampires sense from you is the kind of attraction they have to the blood of any ordinary huhtened because of your different biology, which is why they are drawn to you Your mother made a spell that contained her very own blood as its basis, and that means that the only way to break it is with her blood And so, since she’s dead, that can never be done”
“So if my mum had never hidden my blood with her spell, would th
e va me?” I ask
“Definitely Not only that, but it would probably call to every vampire within several miles of you They can’t sense you because your mother made sure that her spell hid it deep within you, obviously you inherited the biological trait from her, so she knew first-hand what it was like to be always running from those anted to drain her, or kill her so that she couldn’t be drained”
I rub my forehead, and a cold sweat comes away on my hand “But I don’t understand If she could have hidden this thing in me, then why couldn’t she have hidden it in herself too?” I ask
Rita frowns “A witch can’t cast a spell on herself, she’d need another witch to do that for her So if your mother was like ical faic users who could do it for her”
My heart aches, as I think of my mother, alone with this stupid blood, with nobody to help her hide it Myhelplessly through those woods, finally caught by whoever it ho had been hunting her Had it been the vaotten her in the end? And did oing through?
She’d possibly kept it a secret from him But then why had he lied and told me she’d died in a car accident, because that definitely wasn’t how her life had ended, if that vision of the woods is anything to go by Abruptly, I turn to Rita and Alvie “You two have to promise to keep this a secret,” I tell the out about this”