The headache was back again, while she was talking with Shawn, Melissa had the strange feeling that a migraine was brewing in her head. She could remember the last time this happened: back on her birthday, and by now she could almost swear that someone was lurking around the house. "I will go to the kitchen to get something to eat" she had said to Shawn when in reality she was following her nose, the now familiar stench was back, she could smell it on her birthday … the stench was unmistakable.
She walked towards the kitchen and looked outside the door, although it was close the putrid odor was coming right from outside, it was a mix of old blood, sweat, the vampire's peculiar stench and… something else, but what? Another lingering odor came into play almost imperceivable, but it was there. Something else was intertwined with the other smells, and there it was… "Rembrandt" she could made up the hint of his musky smell but and also a decay, rotten and molder smell.