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**Peeker** · May 15th, 2007, 10:30 PM

"Yes, well, we aren't all celebrities, at least." Aleksandr shook his head. "The book is quite wrong, you know - we met for Christmas some fifteen years ago. He throws quite the party."

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · May 15th, 2007, 10:34 PM

Alice blinked looking completely shocked at him.

"You mean he's still alive!" She was mixing up the character Dracula with Vlad thinking they were the same. "I thought he got killed by Van Hellsing, or at lest works for them..."

Now she was mixing him up with Alucard from the manga Hellsing. Aleks shock his head looking amused.

"I don't believe it, Vlad the Impaler. Alive." She shuddered. "I hope I never met him."

**Peeker** · May 15th, 2007, 10:37 PM

"Yes, well, how about this one." He gestured to a painting of a tall, cold-eyed woman wearing a full victorian dress of stunning ice-blue. Alek grinned, remembering something. "She has the same colored hair as you. or... She did. Its gotten a bit white since then..."

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · May 15th, 2007, 10:42 PM

Alice looked at portaite drawning a blank. The woman looked familiar but not from a book. In fact t was sort of... unpleasant in a way. Alice almost felt tha she would move any moment just to scare her.

"She... looks like my old enlgish teacher..." Alice shuddered at the memory. "Mrs. Saumple. She was an old battle axe who did everything in her power to make my life miserable..."

Alice blushed as she realized she was rambling and shock her head.

"Sorry, I'm not sure who she is," She looked at the portaite, trying harder to remember but without luck.

**Peeker** · May 15th, 2007, 10:46 PM

Aleksandr smiled. "At least you didn't start in the back of the book and work your way towards the front. She's one of the youngest - my last fledgling, in fact - no matter what the painting looks like, she's practically a baby... Do you recognize any of the others? I'm sure at least one or two will trigger something."

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · May 15th, 2007, 10:56 PM

Alice looked at a few others. She stopped at a painting of a very beautiful vampiress dressed in a deep red grown while black trim and a heavy ruby necklace about her neck. The woman had a cruel look in her eyes and a smirk on her lip, as if she knew she was better then everyone else.

"This one I definitely know," Alice backed away from the painting. Of all the female vampires she was learning, this one unnerved her to no ends. Mostly because she had met the woman once. "That's the Countress Carmilla. She... she use to kill young girls and ba..."

Alice looked sickly at the picture. Carmilla had told her in detail what she would do to her victims before Aleksander had rescued her from her.

"... bath in their blood to remain beautiful and young..." Alice finished and looked at an other portrait. "And this one's Lord Razziel Dornnal. He's known for rearing hell hounds and being a general during the dark ages."

**Peeker** · May 15th, 2007, 11:01 PM

"Yes. The graphic ones. Well, good - I don't expect you to have this hall memorized, Alice, but I'm happy to see you've at least taken an interest. Don't... don't think of these people as a lesson you need to learn by a certain time. They're a history - a story - and if you keep reading, you'll be able to put the pieces together much more easily. "...For example, do you know how Lord Dornnal reared those hounds?"

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · May 15th, 2007, 11:06 PM

Alice blinked and shock her head. She had never really met the man, just on of his fledglings who had 'grown up' and moved away from him.

Alice had met Mikeal on the street that first and only time she had tried to run away from Aleksandr. After having caught her and called Aleks to pick her up, he had explained to her a bit on why it was better to be with her Sire and learn what was happening to her rather then running off. To help her take her mind of of Aleks until he'd arrive, Mikeal told her about his own life as a fledgling and how he envied her sire. That was where she knew about the hell hound and his strict love as Mikeal had called it.

"No, how does he rear them?"

**Peeker** · May 15th, 2007, 11:12 PM

Aleksandr happily watched the girl blunder into his trap. "Well, that's just it! Another story entirely. A copy of Dornnal's Memoirs is in the library. If you'd like, feel free to read it - if you do, I'd be more than happy to consider it just as - if not more - educational than the Histories I've left you with."

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · May 15th, 2007, 11:16 PM

Alice gapped at him and then growled. Figures he would do this, he had this ability to passively give her more work to do. What was worse he knew she would go and read the damnable book.

"That..." Alice pointed a fingure at him and poked him lightly on the chest. "...it just beyond mean, Aleks."

She then turned back and looked at the portrait of his past fledgling. "So... who was she anyway? what did she do?"