Kindred Spirits 6.1

Kindred Spirits
by Soledad

Rating: Teens and above, for some canon-compliant violence.
Author’s note: I’ve taken some creative freedom considering the lifestyle of Coptic nuns. After all, the one appearing in “Poltergeist: the Legacy” was supposed to be an Anchorite, too, which didn’t hinder her in going to San Francisco just like that.

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Part Six

With deliberate slowness, to give Vicki the chance to notice him, Henry entered her living room. He shouldn’t have been surprised that she could feel his presence. Sharing blood did enable people to do that, even if only one of them was a vampire.

Vicki was sitting on the couch, not doing anything in particular. Vampire vision being what it was – meaning that he could actually see colours in the darkness, as long as there was at least some light, which was always the case in a big city – made possible for him to see the redness of her eyes and the tracks of dried tears on her cheeks.

“Victoria, I am sorry,” he said quietly.
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