Vampires Realm Prophecy 01 - Child of Light

that another bloodline wouldn’t treat her according to her rank. Both Valentine and Mathias treated her like a child.
    Her gaze strayed to Valentine. He was leafing through a book and looked as though he was still struggling with whatever was plaguing him. She kept her distance, not wanting to make him feel uncomfortable, and looked down at the stack of books nearest her.
    “Let me get a look at you,” Mathias said.
    Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Valentine raise his head.
    She held her head high, letting the scribe look her over and feeling as though she had gone from being treated as though she was a child to a prized thoroughbred as he prodded and poked her. She frowned into his dark eyes and mused that he wasn’t much taller than her and he was almost as slim. She could probably take him in a fight. She growled when he grabbed hold of her wrists, turning her hands over and gazing at her palms.
    “Ouch,” she said when he caught hold of her jaw and forced her to face Valentine.
    Her eyes met Valentine’s green ones.
    “Mathias,” Valentine said in a venomous tone and a dark look knitted his brows. “Let her go.”
    She felt fingers run over the marks on her neck and saw Valentine’s expression darken.
    “I said let her go.” He started to move around the table but stopped when Mathias released her.
    “No other marks or signs of a sire?” Mathias didn’t look at her, he was holding Valentine’s gaze, giving him a look that made it clear that he wasn’t impressed by the fact that Valentine had commanded him to let her go.
    She placed her hand over the marks on her neck and took a step backwards.
    “None,” Valentine said and visibly relaxed. “Just as I told you before.”
    She wondered how long they’d been talking before she’d listened in on them.
    “You were right not to kill her.” Mathias looked at her as he spoke to Valentine. “There is more to the prophecy than they tell the children.”
    “There is?” Valentine gave him a look of disbelief.
    “The elders made sure that only a chosen few were told the true meaning of the prophecy. The rest have been told that the vampire will destroy the world. The prophecy hasn’t been translated in over a thousand years and now even those manuscripts are lost. They split the original scroll into two and hid each part in a place deemed safe.”
    “Why?” She couldn’t help asking the question. The elders had to have had a reason for not wanting everyone to know the real prophecy.
    “I’m not certain. It is possible that one of the elders would know. When I was a youngling, they altered the status of the prophecy to that of a sacred text. It is now illegal to translate it, which raises suspicion in my mind that there is vital information contained within it that the elders wished to keep hidden. I have never seen it myself, but I will translate it if you can bring it to me. I do not fear the Law Keepers. To understand the true extent of the prophecy you’re involved in, we need to study the scroll in its entirety,” Mathias said and her eyes dropped to rest on the books before coming up to meet Valentine’s.
    “You said that I would destroy all demons, but that you didn’t believe it because of the vision you saw from my blood.”
    He nodded.
    She looked at Mathias. “What do you remember of the prophecy? What were you told?”
    “We will know the child of the prophecy because they were born during a great eclipse. In their lifetime, another will come, but this one will signal the end. Nine of the translators believed that the child of the prophecy would damn our kind, but one amongst them believed differently. She believed that the child would be a saviour. Not just of demons, but of the world.”
    Prophecy didn’t know what to say. She was either supposed to kill all demons or save the world. How was she meant to react to that? When Valentine had told her that she would kill everything, she’d wished that he’d killed her. She couldn’t bear the thought that she would do such a thing and she’d felt powerless to stop it. Now Mathias was telling her that there was a chance that she was supposed to save everyone, but it was only one person in ten that had thought so. It was all too much. How could she save the world? In her eyes, it seemed easier to destroy it. To save it seemed impossible.
    She looked at Valentine when he moved towards her and then she turned away from him, heading for the door. She glanced back at him