She had met him three years ago, he had been stuck on a relatively safe island full of merman trying to eat their flesh, human flesh, or, in her case, vampire flesh, if there was even that big a difference, she wasn't entirely certain of that.
Ohrren had managed to escape the place around the same time she did, though she had been able to do it much faster, with him actually having spent a whole year in that godforsaken place, pieces of his flesh being cut off but quickly regenerating, his mind fracturing, being driven closer and closer to what he was now by the constant presence of the mermen and merwomen, a species that often specialized in their allure, in turning people into literal perverts, something akin to a succubus, just permanent, not to say succubi couldn't make it permanent either, they just preferred not to from what she knew.
Thinking about that as she looked at the latex-covered giant, she clamed down, remembering that it wasn't really his fault, remembering that he had at least started to show signs of shame once more, trying to calm herself down from the anger she felt whenever she looked at him and saw, well, what she saw should be pretty obvious, she saw the latex, everywhere.
She turned her head away, looking onto her left, trying to read into the man who stood there, unmoving, ragged clothes that were sliced, ripped, into pieces, charred and burnt, destroyed, and yet still whole, as if nothing had truly happened, crusted over by blood of countless colours, all having darkened to the extend of seeming more brown than anything else, but she barely was able to find anything at all.
The boy, young but collected, having been here for far longer than the two of them together, at least from what she had been able to gather from the rare times he spoke, had gone through a lot, having met her in a place where a normal being was supposed to die instantly, his flesh falling off, maggots crawling all over, yet, not caring, as if that was one of the least painful things that had been happening to him, something that had broken her heart as she saw this crusted over seventeen year old child act like this.
Though, he was probably even older than herself, she had been turned into a vampire when she was nineteen, had lived as one for seventy-three years, and then she had been put in this place and has been residing, or rather, been kept, in this place for thirteen years, perhaps the smallest span of time, and yet, the longest for her psyche, aside from the months after she was infected with vampirism of course, a true pain, something that completely breaks ones psyche and remodels it, though she didn't regret it.
While the young boy, striking black eyes as if they could devour you at any moment, but dead, unmoving, coloured skin but still pale, long hair that went down to beyond his shoulders, unkempt and oily, but still clean, a genetical gift from what she was able to tell, about 5'10 tall, was covered in blood from various species, his skin still looking spotless for some reason, but still, he looked dead, and no one would be attracted to a corpse, aside from if that corpse was a vampire.
Indeed, perhaps because vampires have to often seduce people to peacefully get blood, they developed to be quite seductive in their actions, and very beautiful when it came to members of the patients affiliated with the arcane disease.
She still remembered the story, tragic, but she no longer cared, she did not care that her own father had forced her to turn for an experiment, magical in nature, of course, she did not care that the experiment went wrong, she did not care that, out of seventeen children that had been tested, fifteen remained alive after the test, she did not care that she, in a frenzy after being turned, drunk the blood of all the children, she did not care that they died, she did not care that her life was frozen, she did not care, at least not anymore, but perhaps that was the case with most of those that entered this place.
When one entered this realm, they left a part of themselves behind, changing not only their mindset to survive, but even losing their very species, the pride of countless beings, she had been lucky though, she had always been a human, the species that she had been 'forced' to be once more, though it had hurt when she had turned all over again, luckily not falling into a frenzy, perhaps because of the very nature of this place, the nature that seemed to force them all to stay alive, eternally starving, eternally striving, though she was lucky to be able to alleviate her first with fair ease by just drinking the blood of the numerous monsters, most of which she was able to digest.
Either way, the island was truly.. small... smaller than most they had seen before, be it not as small as the temple-islands, those checkpoints as the little boy whose name she had been able to find out as Akreis, referred to them as, something that was supposedly a part of his world's literature, though he didn't remember much anymore, perhaps a gift, perhaps a curse.
The island was small, only about a mile or two across, an endless stream flowing down from the sides, visible from their elevated position, covered in a thick forest of silver trees, saplings, standing atop what seemed to be the very same coins they now knew too well, having been forced to sleep upon them many times before, coins made of Cadon, the very material said to make up the soul.
It was serene, and yet, they felt something, something within that place, as if called by another hand, perhaps it was the very thing that Ohrren was able to hear all this time, but she was not scared of whatever it was, rather, it felt as if something old was about to awake, something that had been asleep peacefully for many years now.
And if only she had known how right she was, if only she had known that soon enough a being that had been asleep for over eighty years would awaken, perhaps she would've changed her decision, but alas, they quickly jumped atop the island, their power spreading slightly but being crushed by the almost ancient force of the Cadon and the sleeping creature deep within the heart of the island.