Ocean of Sin and Starlight by Karina Halle EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Karina Halle
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PRIEST
Two Centuries Later
“You have enough blood to last you a month,” Abe announces as he
steps into my cabin. The wind howls like a rabid wolf through the
crack as he shuts the door.
I press my fingers onto the papers to prevent them from flying away and
look up from my desk. The candles flicker out, plunging my cottage into
darkness, but I can see the doctor clearly.
“A month,” I repeat, panic making my mouth taste sour. Four weeks of
absolution until I have to sin again.
Until I have to kill again.
I hope my voice doesn’t betray the despair inside me, twisting into
acidic knots, but Abe’s expression softens, and I know he can smell my fear.
“You knew I had to leave,” he says gently as he slowly crosses the
room. “I can only keep you company and do your…dirty work for so long.”
The dirty work. That is my term for my appetite. Abe uses more
innocuous words: our instincts. Our hunger. Our drive. As a doctor, he looks
at our affliction as merely that: something that had befallen us, like a
disease, to be dealt with matter-of-factly. But Abe isn’t like me, not exactly.
He was born with an appetite for blood. I wasn’t. I was born human. I had a
family, a future.
I had a soul…until I didn’t.
“There are others,” Abe says as he stands by my desk, his fingers
tracing the gold-foiled script stamped on the Holy Bible. “The last
correspondence from the monastery said it resembles an epidemic. More of
your kind have been created in a surge of violence. Some of them were
witches, such as yourself.”
“By him? By Kaleid?” I whisper. Saying his name causes my heart to
race, even after all this time.
The doctor stares at me for a moment, as if weighing the truth, then
nods once. “I fear it may be worse than I originally thought, and my
expertise is needed. They can’t be allowed to roam. They must be
rehabilitated. They must be saved. You know there is a word for us now?
The humans are catching on. They call us Vampyres.”
“Vampyres,” I repeat. The word seems fitting.
“There are people at the monastery…” I begin, but I trail off because
there is no one like the doctor. I knew he wouldn’t be down here with me at
the bottom of the world forever, but when he stepped off the ship eight
months ago, I had hoped he would stay at least a couple of years.
Yet I know there is nothing for him here, nothing but me, and I’m not
good company. My job is to become the voice for God in this cold, barren,
windswept region, to provide both faith and guidance for the settlers who
have been stationed here in Nombre de Jesus by command of the Governor
of Chile. The people are here to prevent English privateers and pirates from
taking over the Strait of Magellan, and I am here to provide salvation.
This place is supposed to be my salvation too.
But I haven’t found it yet.
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