Henry and Hailey went to visit Lord Wyatt Tepes first seeing as how Hailey's mother had been worried about her. Henry looked over at Hailey who had her arms crossed as they transported to Tepes Manor.
"Do you want to...talk about it?" Henry asked. "No, not really, feeling like talking to you." Hailey said as they made their way to Tepes Manor. They were greeted by Hailey's mother, Cheyenne, who also stood by a man (no doubt a vampire) with long blonde hair.
"Oh, Hailey, thank goodness, I was afraid I wouldn't hear from you!" Cheyenne said happily as she hugged her mother. Hailey saw her mother was wearing a simplistic Victorian dress.
"Hi, mom, it's wonderful to see you too. Why the dress?" Hailey asked. "Oh, Lord and Lady Tepes do like the servants here to have a bit of class. I'm sure you read my letter. The Tepes children are quite a handful, but Lady Kyra and I get along quite well with them." Cheyenne said.
"Ahem." The blonde man behind Cheyenne cleared his throat. "Oh yes, of course, where are my manners? Hailey, Hailey's friend, this is Lancelot, one of Lord Wyatt's high ranking men. He's one of the few vampires out here who isn't so hateful towards werewolves. That's why he agreed to meet with me." Cheyenne explained.
"Well that makes me feel better." Henry said sarcastically. "Yes, well why don't you walk ahead with me, mister..."
"Henry." "Henry, yes, that's it. I want Hailey to get to know one of the better men here in the vampire homeland." Cheyenne said to Henry and looked back at Hailey winking.
Hailey rolled her eyes and started walking next to Lancelot. Looking him over, Hailey could see why her mother had mentioned him in her letter from her, he would catch any woman's eye. But Hailey didn't think she could really have time for any relationships with her work nowadays.
"You were recently cursed." Lancelot commented on to Hailey. "What? How could you possibly know that?" Hailey asked surprised to hear him say that. "You arrived looking uncomfortable but happy to see your mother, you gave her a hug to assure her you were better, and now you walk alongside me like you're afraid of others." Lancelot explained.
"You must know about curses." "I do, I too had an experience with it. It led to much worse consequences for me. Only here after so many years have I finally found purpose again." Lancelot said.
"Well, I certainly hate the guy who did it. But he says he didn't have anything to do with it. While I think he may be lying, he seems genuine about it."
"From what you tell me, it seems like the curse is involuntary. Did he do anything to alter your mind?" Lancelot said.
"No, from what I can remember, I went to him with this show. I remember liking the show but he didn't like drug me or anything, I know that for sure." Hailey said.
"Then his curse must be from an outside source." Lancelot concluded.
"I suppose that would make sense." Hailey said.
"It hasn't even been a whole year for me, and I've already gone through a lot of crap of being a vampire." Hailey said.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Lancelot asked. Hailey looked at him, unsure at first but knowing they shared something in common, she decided she needed some new friends and began to talk.
Cheyenne looked back to see her daughter enjoying her talk with Lancelot and proceeded to talk with Henry as they neared the throne room.
"So how are the lord and lady of vampires these days?" Henry asked. "Oh, they're doing well. It's astonishing really, I didn't think I'd ever enjoy living here, but it feels more like home every day. My lord and lady treat me so kindly, and they're babies are just the sweetest things. One can hardly imagine they'll all grow up to be angst teenagers one day." Cheyenne chuckled.
They finally arrived at the throne room where they saw Lord Wyatt and Lady Kyra dressed elegantly for their meeting with Henry and Hailey. However there was also a third woman there dressed in what appeared to be a black and white Samoan dress.
"My lord, my lady, may I present Henry and my daughter, Hailey, from S.P.E.A.R. ." Cheyenne said with a bow.
"Thank you Cheyenne, please go watch our children while they nap." Lady Kyra said.
"Greetings Lord Wyatt, Lady Kyra, as my mother said, I'm Hailey and we came to talk about this new vampire and wondered if you had anything new information to add." Hailey said.
"Well we do have one new bit of information to add, we recently acquired help. Since the foxes got themselves a god to watch over their people I thought it was high time to look into our own bat gods. This is Leutogi, hailing from Samoa, she is our bat goddess and protector of the vampire realm. Now let's talk." Lord Wyatt said.