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“You mean the one just a mile off the coastline? The deserted one?” I ask
“Yeah, that’s the one,” says Rita “And you have to wonder why it’s been deserted for so long If you ask ical residue leftover from when Theodore died My mum says you used to be able to see his ht it was lit up by all sorts of colourful lights frorounds”
“Carnival rides?” I ask, bemused
“Apparently Theodore was crazy for all that fun fair stuff, he collected old rides, antiques like the big wheel and the chair-o-planes, and he had this big creepy carnival just inside the gates of his estate He used to hav
e his servants turn theht, with music and all, you know that kind of old piano and accordion fair music”
This provokes arecent, but I can’t place it so I brush it off as randoless déjà vu “It’s doesn’t sound that creepy,” I interject
Rita sighs “It is when you consider the fact that the rides went on and on without anyone ever riding the but empty”
“Okay, I suppose that is a little bit spooky,” I admit
“You think?” says Rita, shaking her head “So back to the story, Theodore was brutal in his dictatorship My mum said he’d kill you for so much as a dirty look The vampires resented him for the fact that he enforced massive taxes on the business people So in following, they had big incoot rich off of their hard work If they refused to pay he’d make sure their business went under with a spell”
I nod in understanding, though the only vampire businessperson I know is Ethan, still, he is fairly successful
Rita continues “The warlocks resented hiic They were envious of his power and also despised the authority he held over them The warlocks like to think they’re superior to everyone else, if you hadn’t noticed The fact that Theodore, one man, could control all of them as well as the vampires and the dhamphirs, well that just really stuck in their craw In the early sixties those who hated Theodore began to get organised, secret societies for his
“You kno revolutionary people were back then Anyway, everyone says that Theodore knew about this but didn’t care much, since he considered hiuess that was his one big mistake He didn’t bother to keep the societies in check and before he knew it they’dspell You know the whole section of Tribane thatin her story I nod
“Well that used to be the storound of the Blue Society, just one of the anti-Theodore groups They had so or other, he was an exceptionally talented ic user, and so, under his leadership the Blue Society concocted ahis ic on the whole area around their street The blocks started out small, they tested it on a short stretch of land and then another When it worked successfully, the Blue Society began selling the forroups, and soon there were little or no places left for Theodore to control”
“The va since they weren’t as skilled in ic as the warlocks The dhaic, like Gabriel, but the vampires are fairly clueless, at least they were back in the sixties So Theodore lost all the control he had over thepopulation, as well as a serious ah not completely since they couldn’t block him like the warlocks could For a while Theodore disappeared off the radar, and supernatural society went on as normal”
“Then, on the last day in Dece held down by the port, it used to be a tradition where all supernaturals put their differences aside for one night and welcoht away and having a good tiin, Theodore appeared on a twenty-foot high podiu a tank of petrol in one ar down on the crowd like a maniac Don’t quotelike “You caood people of Tribane, well I’ll give you one then” And he poured the petrol all over hi fro himself while he burned”