Chapter 9

I follow him down the stream where there are rocks to walk across. I walk across the rocks to meet him. I kneel down to get some water because of my strong thirst. I cup my hands and get some water from the river and drink it. I get up and look at the vampire "so what's your name?" I ask. He says "Maverick." "Like the the main character from Top Gun?" I ask. He says "exactly like the main character from Top Gun." I ask "you said you have base of operations?" He says "yes... It's not much but it works enough and gives me a place to lay my head and store my weapons and bleed my prey." I began to think "prey"? I'm not sure I should trust this guy. "So Maverick what monsters do you usually feed on?" I ask. He says "What you don't trust me? Understandable. You should never trust anyone around here. Especially in Purgatory. To answer your question anything that isn't considered undead except werewolves you guys were literally made to kill us vampires." "Ok so why not the undead?" I ask. "Simple. It would poison me and could kill me. Same result with a dead person's blood. If I ingest it or it's put in my body in any way it'll poison me." he answers. "May I see your place?" I ask. "Sure but if you give off any funny behavior I'll kill you." We begin walking west and I can hear the wind blow through the trees as we walk through the grass. As we're walking he asks "so what's your story?" "Well I went to help my friend who was kidnapped by a wendigo who was camping with my best friend and when I got to him the wendigo was there blocking my way to him so I had to kill it and there was blood everywhere. It must have gotten on him because later he lost his mind and thought it was my best friend's fault that he was stuck there with the wendigo. So he sent out a text saying to everyone that he was going to kill everyone. I just so happened to be the first person he killed." I answered. "Tragic" he says. There was a small pause before he spoke again. "Nothing you can do about it now. You know the saying "all you can do is keep moving forward" time won't slow down for you to gather yourself you can only do that on the run. Hope you didn't have too many loved ones behind or a girl to get back to because now your stuck with no way home." I began to think maybe he's right there is no way out. If this place is as bad as he says it is we're probably going to run into another person in the way up there. Sucks for them because I'm getting a little bit hungry. We keep walking and I tell Maverick "I'm getting hungry I hope we come across someone in the way there or a creature that I can eat. I hope more creature than person." "I hope so too" He replies.