Chapter 54 The Assassin Boy with Violet Eyes (2/2)

Rassa took his two fingers and mimed his fangs in front of the mask.

Aegin just grinned in amusement, ”What's that suppoed to be?”

Right. Vampires weren't exactly a known thing. Rassa had only had two lessons with Victor but he was beginning to forget his own reality.

Rassa sighed, then tapped his mask again before pointing at Aegin, shaking his head and slicing across his throat.

”You won't kill me if I take it off?” Aegin asked to confirm.

Rassa nodded.

Aegin scoffed, ”Exactly why should I believe that?”

Rassa's eyes dimmed once more, and he turned away, wasn't like he could prove it.

Aegin sighed, then disappeared from the window. There was a few moments of silence, then Rassa heard light footsteps behind him, and a hand snuck through the grate to the back of his head, unlocking the chain there. Rassa caught the mask before it hit the ground, then placed it down lightly and turned to Aegin who had what looked to be dried meat. Rassa frowned.

”I can't eat that”.

His voice was a little raspy from not being used, and he swallowed as he looked at Aegin, nothing but honesty in his eyes. Aegin sighed.

”You hardly have room to be fussy,” Aegin stated.

”No I...it won't alleviate the hunger,” Rassa tried explaining.

”What do you want then? A three course meal? This is hardly the time or place to be asking for-”

”Blood. Fresh from the source. Any source,” Rassa said flatly.

Aegin paused, looking at Rassa for a moment, ”You're serious?”

Rassa nodded, ”You have no idea why I'm in these chains in the first place, do you?”

Aegin shrugged, ”It's not my job to know”.

Rassa sighed in frustration, ”Well maybe you should make it your job, because the last group of people who didn't feed me were slaughtered, and there were nearly 50 of them”.

Aegin frowned, ”Is that a threat?”

”Do you need it to be? Because I assure you, I'm quite happy to leave it as a warning”.

Rassa wasn't exactly sure what Aegin saw in him at that moment. Whether it was his fear of repeating the massacre, his hunger, his frustration, his sadness, his desperation. But when asked many years later, Aegin would only reply with one sentence, the same one he said that day.

”If I get caught, I'm going to kill you”.

With the look in those violet eyes, Rassa didn't doubt it. He never would.