by crow » 03/31/2017 2:36 AM
In the meantime, however, there were jobs to work and food to find, and all the other small and laborious tasks that came with the need to keep on living. They were tedious, but they kept him going, better perhaps than his lofty purpose. It was just as well that they did keep him moving too. As he passed through the towns, he didn’t find any more promising leads on his mother, but he would hear about vampires, here and there.
Eventually he learned to offer information about his father too, when he searched. He had to be careful--- nothing that would give away his true identity, and hopefully not enough to capture the interest of his father’s coven. Vampires, old established vampires, tended to become properly paranoid as a matter of fact. Those who didn’t eventually died, after all, and a strange youth offering tidbits about your coven was sometimes suspicious enough.