Helena mused as her fingers passed over the brail, taking in the texture and shape, reading words rapidly, her fingers flying over the pages.
Words raced across the tips of her fingers.

Paranormal.... ghosts.... demons.... devils.... angels.... vampires.... werewolves.... poltergeists....

Everything sounded so horrible, but she was so sure the male voice that bit her in that class room was not human. He had felt solid though. So did that rule out ghosts and poltergeists? He certainly wasn't a fucking angel.
Helena sighed and withdrew her hand from the rough pages and placed her golden head in her hands, her empty blue eyes open but unaware of the sights before her as she sighed.

Her parents thought she was crazy when she told them, showed them the bite marks on her neck. She carefully hid them today by sporting a light blue turtle neck sweater to match her eyes. Her jeans were faded and torn on the bottoms near her tan boots.
She shook her head and her blonde hair fell over her pale face. What was she supposed to do? Let it go? No.... It was so terrifying. There was- a monster in teh city- and she needed to find out what he was. She was too damn curious for her own good.

Helena's hearing picked up on a few movements around her. Not many came to the library at night, but her parents had caught onto her obsessive infatuation with the mysterious and the mythical and had grounded her. She had snuck out when her parents were sleeping and now....

Well, now she was here. Funny that a blind girl could sneak out of home at night and make it safely to the library. The library was close to her house though, and she never took the alleys. The only thing she worried about was.... whatever had bitten her before. That had happened late as well. What if it happened again tonight? No. It couldn't. She was alone last time and now- now there were people around. Surely he wouldn't find her again or dare to attempt to bite her again, suck on her skin uncomfortably.

There was no such thing as biting.... vampires? There couldn't be. But she hadn't dreamed the bite. She still had holes to prove it. She had been bitten.

Chi spent a lot of time at the library, not as much as she would have liked, yet she tried to get as much into her mind as she could. She spent most of her nights at home, designing a blanket or belt. She had spent so much time doing so in her youth. Now she simply got bored with it all, how was one suppose to occupy their time when they had gone through six millenias? There was simply nothing that seemed to interest her mind. Which is why she spent a lot of time out of the house. More and more she found herself escaping her solitary life and going somewhere where she was surrounded by people. The library was the quietest of those places, but she liked to come here.

Her hand was skimming the books, simply enjoying the touch of them and looking at the titles to know how far that she had gone. Finally one caught her interest, it had something to do with old religions from faraway China. She wanted to know how far back it went and if it went truly far, how much of it had they gotten wrong.

As she was looking for a place to sit, to peruse the book in hand, she caught a sense of unease. Her clear eyes scanned the area and she found the person that felt that way. she wondered how to approach this one and saw the images floating through her mind about the book she was reading. She couldn't help but feel amuse. Interesting choice it was.

She strode towards the younger woman. "Good book?" She could tell that the woman was blind, the book was written in braille and despite the fact that Chi could not read it, the book seemed old. Besides she always wondered how a blind person saw life.

The woman's voice caught her offguard. Her footsteps must have been very light, unusually so. Helena would have heard them. Well, maybe she was just too focused on her reading, too focused on her irrational paranoia and fear. But it was real. She was so sure it was real. She had to be.... right?

Her fingers stopped moving and her eyes swiveled unseeingly as her head turned in the direction of the sound.
"It is a good book, however frightening." she replied, unsure of what to say next. Her fingers continued to ski over the pages, the dots forming words in her head as she continued reading, her head still pointed in the direction of the woman.

The woman's fingers moved slightly over something hard, possibly a book. Helena assumed that was what was in hand and asked, "I hope you enjoy your book, if you have not read it already." The woman could be returning the book. She could have just gotten it off the shelf. But one fact was certain: She did not open the book. Helena didn't hear it.

For a moment she paused as her thoughts fell back to what she was reading. An unusual silence passed over them like a fog for a moment before Helena ventured to learn more about the stranger.
"I'm Helena.... and may I ask your name?" She couldn't help but feel that she was somewhat safe with this stranger. Unlike the vibe she got in the classroom.... that nigth she was bitten.... she could almost feel his urge to hurt her in the air.... in the very vibrations of the atmosphere.

Chi saw her start. It was more of the way the air moved around her then the actual motion that caught her attention. It was a kind of aerokinesis, it was much more than simply controlling the wind, but it had to do with air. "I didn't mean to startle you."

The comment that it was frightening, caught her attention. "It being a good book, I can see why one would continue to read it, but why continue if it's frightening. Is it for the thrill?" Chi could understand that, it was the same when she flew. The thrill of speeding through the air and feeling the power of nature around her. It was the same feeling she got when she used her powers.

Chi smiled, her lips curling into an amused smiled. "I haven't read it yet, but I have a feeling that it will have exactly what I am looking for. Though it could also have the completely wrong information. Not everything one read is true, it's a bit like television shows."

Chi's smile didn't vanish. "Where are my manners? People call me Chi, a nickname of sorts." She eyed the woman with a sense of curiosity. She felt safe, that was good, Chi didn't harm people. It wasn't in her blood anymore. She allowed others to cause the pain though she tried to stop them. "May I sit down?"

"It's quite alright," Helena replied as the woman said that she hadn't meant to startle her. Her question, however, made Helena frown. She had to continue to read, no matter how frightening the tales were. Vampires had never scared Helena before, but now- they were positively horrifying. And why? Because she knew they were real.

"Fictional villians aren't scary. This is.... This can't be fiction," Helena murmured, her voice just audible. She shook her head and her pale blue eyes swerved as she moved her head away from Chi and angled her neck towards her book. Her fingers danced over the pages delicately, taking in a few notes on the weaknesses of vampires: sunlight, crosses, holy water, silver, garlic.... Well, the book said not all vampires were destroyed by every weakness. They differed just as people differed. Well, helen would just have to arm herself with everything. Vampires couldn't pass over running water? Well that didn't help her much....

Her attention drew back to the woman as Helena realized she had been quite silent as she read. She turned her head back to the voice. "I read not for thrills but because I need to know. I just have to know." She supposed she didn't make much sense to her, but well.... she couldn't possibly tell her. She'd think her crazy.

"I hope you like your book and yeah- I guess not everything is true." Helena wished what she was reading wasn't true, but it had to be true. It couldn't possibly be fiction. The holes on her neck were sure as hell not fictional.

"Chi? That's an interesting name. You can't originally be from Demaitre, can you?" Helena inquired, "Sure. Sit down." Helena made a motion with her hand, gesturing towards the seat on her right as her other hand continued to read. She turned a page.

Chi watched the woman and for a moment she was tempted to look into the woman's brain to see what was frightening her ans wasn't exactly fictional. She sat down and frowned. "No I'm not from Demaitre, I was born in China. We moved here when I was really young." Had they? No, she had come here on her own. Her parents had died long ago.

"What can't be fictional?" She was curious and though she had her own book to read, talking to Helena was a lot more interesting. She was afraid of something that was suppose to be fictional, yet wasn't. Chi had an idea that it might be vampires, yet it was better if the woman said what it was than Chi simply blurting it out.

"China? Well, that makes much more sense with your name. I can kinda put a face to the same as well now too...." Helena knew what faces looked like. There were two eyes (Chinese had slanted eyes), colored orbs that were separated by a curved nose that led to lips that housed the teeth. Faces were either round, heart shaped or oval and hair came in different colors. Colors.... Colors.... Now, she wasn't sure what colors were, but she was assuming that colors were the strange variations of light on the Silver man's body.

The man who bit her- he had made her see things- a human.... him she believed. Helena frowned. And he looked just as she expected a human too. And the colors.... were they? Were they real? Or was she just imagining things again? No, no! It had to be real!

"Fictional? What's fictional?" Helena repeated, looking down, closing her book and hugging it tightly to her chest in rapid succession. "You'll think I'm crazy!" she protested, her temper flustered. She took a breath and added, in a whisper. "You'll think I'm crazy if I tell you. Everyone else thinks I am- and I just want. I just want the nightmares to stop. I just want to stop being so afraid.... I want the sun."

Chi watched her and could see her try to put an image to what or who Chi was and what she was expected to look like. She saw a man and frowned, he looked familiar. It was possible that she had seen him on one of her many night treks. She was almost always outside, since she couldn't be outside during the day.

Chi lifted an eyebrow, the only thing that said she was surprised. She laid a gentle hand on the woman's arm. "Calm down, I didn't say that you were crazy. I didn't say anything of the sort." Her voice was soft and reassuring, trying to clam the distraught mortal by her side. "Sometimes people see what others are blind to and you don't need to have eyes to see them. Sometimes what is obvious isn't the truth. Very often the truth is hidden by lies." She watched the young woman trying to decide how to bring her anxiety's to the forefront of the conversation. "Now tell me and I promise that I won't think that you are crazy. I've seen some pretty crazy things in my lifetime." Her lifetime had lasted millenias. She had seen may things.

Chi laid an arm on Helena and she relaxed, trying not to look so damn flustered. Oh- it was so embarrassing how upset she got sometimes. Helena pulled her turtle neck sweater down to reveal two perfect symmetrical holes on her neck- a bite.
"This isn't fictional...." she said, her voice shaking as she ran fingers over the holes to make sure they were still there as she showed Chi.

"I believe I have met- and been bitten by.... a vampire."

Helena braced herself for the laughter, for the mocking, and for the exclamation of 'oh- I'm sorry, I guess you really are crazy.'
"I'm paranoid. I can't bear to go outside at night anymore. I only felt safe here because- there's other people around. Before I was alone and he- he followed me. I can't sleep because all I ever see is him and the colors. I remember the colors but I can't see them. He showed me colors and I'll never see them...." the last comment was spoken wistfully, as if the very fact that she couldn't see the beautiful colors for herself was the end of her world. And it was. He had showed her the beauty of sight- and thrust her back into darkness.

Chi simply looked at her. Did Chi think she was crazy? How could she be when Helena feared what Chi was? "I don't think that you are crazy. I've met vampires, they aren't all the bad. Some of them are animals while others are very nice. You've met just one, don't stereotype an entire community because of one."

Well Helena would now know that there was more then one vampire in the city. It was good that she would know, but it might make her more paranoid. Well she would have to deal with it and perhaps take precautions. Chi didn't know which to take, though garlic would be a good idea. Not all vampires hated garlic but many of them did because of their sensitive nose.

Chi shifted to look at the girl closely. "You have to sleep, despite the nightmares." She looked around no one was looking at them. "I know a vampire that can make you forget, forget that you ever met him, make those marks at your neck disappear. It could hurt a bit, but then you wouldn't remember anything."

Helena felt her jaw drop as Chi spoke. "You've... met one? There's a community?" Helena began to shake. She took her hands away from the book and hugged herself, trying to stop her tremors.
"I know I have to sleep, but can't. I haven't met these so called- nice vampires. I've only met one and he- he scared me...." her voice faded as she tilted her head down, closing her eyes.

"If I forget- I'll just get bitten again- maybe killed. If I know- I can protect myself..." she laughed harshly. A blind girl- protected.... well, that was a stretch.
"I can't possibly forget- but how do you know all these vampires?" She began to shake again with suspicion.

ooc: Is the purple hard to read?

Chi watched the girl. It was better for her to be aware then for her to be at a complete lost to think that every vampire was a dangerous murderer. It had been at least two millenias since Chi had attacked anyone, of course if you were a vampire and needed to be put back in their place then Chi was the person to ask.

She placed a hand on Helena's arm. "There are vampires everywhere during the night, the only moment where they are hidden is during the day. They can't stand the light." The grip on Helena's arm got tighter, without painfully becoming so. "I'm a vampire, yet I have no wish to harm you, I haven't hurt anybody since the Roman Empire." Forward perhaps, but Chi saw no point in going around in circles, when one could get to the point. "You don't have to fear me." She released Helena's arm to prove her point.

(OOC:I don't find it that hard to read...)

Helena pushed Chi away as she stood rapidly, grabbing her cane, her body shaking so much more violently then before with true fear.
"No...." she whispered.”No, Chi- you can't be- you-- can't--" she whimpered, her fear overcoming her weak mind. She felt her eyes water, a few tears falling down her face. Chi couldn't be- a vampire?

The anxiety that racked Helen was perhaps- misunderstood and brushed aside as a simple hurdle. But it was more than that. It was a wall. Her fear was a giant brick wall that she ran into- over and over again. His harsh voice, his painful bite- the mind games he played with her-- the hardness of his body when she shoved the scissors into him.... the colors he showed her.... silver? Helena started to sway, feeling faint.

Chi watched Helena closely and knew that she was most likely going to faint. "Helena, I'm not going to hurt you." Chi's voice was strong and resolved, though it was no louder than a whisper. It would cut right through the woman's terror and panic. There had to be a way for Helena to understand.

Chi grabbed Helena's arm gently. "Listen to me Helena. I will not hurt you, I don't attack mortals, some might find pleasure in that but I don't. Can't you see that perhaps not all vampires are the same, that we are as diverse as mortals are and tend to be?" It was true, vampires were good and evil and everything in between. "I can ease the memory of him and show you colours like he did, but without the pain." He pulled Helena and made her sit down, chi would prefer for her to pass out sitting instead of standing.

Helena shook her head, closing her eyes and clenching her fists. No, no... it couldn't be true- but Chi's words ran through her mind soundly- making her stop and think for a few moments. Not going to hurt her?

"You're not?" she asked, her voice a whisper as she began to shake again- Chi's arms gripping Helena's shoulders and pulling her gently down to the chair. She wrapped her arms around her body and felt her phobia get the best of her as her breathing increased and became rapid and shallow.
"I can't- can't possibly stop fearing- being afraid.... if you had seen him- felt it all.... he played with me- hiding and talking and.... the colors-" Helena felt tears arrive at her eyes and a few fell as she hunched over, the salty tears falling onto her lap.

Helena didn't even hear the last part. She just couldn't comprehend that any vampire could be good- could resist the violence thats he had read so much about.
"Please.... I'm weak- just---" Just what? Kill her if she was going to- but Chi was good? No, she couldn't be.... There was such thing as goodness anymore....

Not since the bite.

Chi could sense the fear more abruptly then she had ever felt it before. This young woman feared vampires more than anything. If ever Chi got her hands on the idiot she would make him regret his very existence. She had destroyed other younger vampires for less. You simply didn't cross an ancient like herself and the vampire had now crossed her.

Chi gently took her chin in one of her hands and made Helena look at her, despite the fact that she couldn't see, didn't matter to Chi. It made her look at Chi. "Listen Helena vampires come in all shape and sizes, some with morality and others without it. We are like mortals we simply have a longer lifespan. I haven't hurt a mortal in almost two thousand years. I do not need mortals like the young ones do, I prefer to interact." She released her chin ever so gently. "I can show you the world the way that you would see it if you had sight, if you like. I have done it before, it shouldn't be difficult." She hesitated just a second and asked the question. "Would you like me too?"

Helena's eyes watered as Chi tilted her head up. Her eyes swiveled in her head- their blank blue irises turning.
"Interact?" her voice came out small and scared- but not panicky. Helena hugged herself and clenched her hands- nails digging into her sweater.

"You can...." she murmured, shaking her head and gripping her arms with her hands even more tightly as Chi asked her- asked her if she wanted to see what she had been denied- what she had been stripped of. The colors.
"Why would I wish to see when I'll just go back to being blind the next moment- I don't want to see anymore of the colors. I don't want to see anything- don't want anything...." Helena felt tears sting her eyes and she wiped them away with a soft, frustrated sound.

Chi nodded, even though the mortal in front of her couldn't see her. "That's right Helena. I don't see you as food and haven't in a very long time. To me, mortals are more than that, most vampires don't see that." If there was a coven she resembled it was probably a mix between the Enashe and the Amman. She tried to control the chaos that some vampires caused, while considering some mortals to be her closest friends.

Chi shrugged. "It was only an offer, you don't have to take me up on it. Just know that if ever you want to see, you can ask me." Chi knew that it was a tempting offer, one that Helena readily refused, after all Chi understood her logic. There had to be something she could offer the girl. At this moment Chi was lost as to what to offer.

Chi stood up, she had troubled Helena long enough. "I'm sorry to have bothered you, I wish there was something that I could offer you. I apologize from the deepest part of my heart."

Helena shook her head, her blonde locks falling over her rounded face.
"Don't say sorry.... It wasn't- It wasn't your fault.... Please, don't go- I'm still so terrified of the night. I was contemplating staying here until morning but.... my parents- they'll freak. They think I'm so crazy- believing in vampires and all but now-- now I know...."

A shuddering sigh escaped the young girl's small mouth as she closed her book, the binding running smoothly across her fingertips as she stopped searching so fervently for answers.

Chi stood and Helena stood with her.
"How can I believe you're truly nice? I can tell- know that you're not like him.... that doesn't make sense. You would think I'd- hate you or try to hurt you or something.... Can you explain why I- believe you? Why I- can tell you're not like him? I don't think my heightened senses are that sharp."

Chi let out a small sigh. "I know it probably isn't easy. The creatures that you thought only existed in people's minds and imagination as well as stories have come to life. In my time we didn't have stories of the sort though there were demons and death that were always nearby." She sat back down in her chair. "I know that perhaps you don't believe me but the stories aren't always right, besides the vampire that attacked you has me to answer to."

Chi stared at her. "It's up to you to trust your instincts. You know what is right. I can't tell you why you should believe me, but I haven't hurt you and it is not in my blood to cause anyone harm. Perhaps my calm presence reassures you. I don't know what it is, only you can truly know." She didn't know how to answer Helena, there was no answer that she could think to give, besides the fact that she was truly kind.

Helena sighed as she heard Chi sit down. "So there's not way to protect myself really- unless I stay inside at night and.... do crucifixes really work?" Helena slumped into her chair.

"I don't know who he was- or if he's still here. Do many vampires take up permanent residencies in cities or do they float and flit between places as people do?" she asked, hugging herself as if cold. She shook her head. "It's so depressing- to realise that you exist. It just- is so unfathomable...." she had been reading too much, thinking too much, and her vocabulary was getting far too extensive.

Chi let out a soft sigh. "Do you crucifixes really work? On some they do, on others they'll probably look at you like you've lost your mind. Garlic works only because we abhor the smell. Sensitive noses can be a drag especially when it comes to strong smells. There is only one way to kill vampires and if you miss aim, you'll just piss them off." Well she wouldn't be exactly pissed, but it would annoy her greatly.

Chi shrugged. "A bit of both I suppose. I was born in what is present day China and I managed to find myself at the other end of the world, so I would think that vampires like to travel, besides after a while we need a change of scenery." A while to Chi was a few hundred years. She had traveled to a lot of places, though not everywhere. Some areas were less conducive for vampires.

"So what's the one way to kill a vampire?" Helena asked, arching an eyebrow in confusion- her eyes swerving. "Can I ask you that? You probably wouldn't tell me though...." she mused. Why would Chi ever tell her how to kill a vampire- how to kill her?

Helena sighed. "Well.... that's good that you guys travel. Hopefully I'll never see him again- or he doesn't find me again. So, where have you been? I mean- forever has to be a long time.... what do you do? Don't you ever get bored? Just wandering? It must be--"

Lonely.

For how valuable is immortality if you have to watch everyone die? If you have to pay the rpice of watching family disappear through the years. And then, when everyone has passed on to that great unknow, what do you do? Where do you go? Helena couldn't even imagine what she would do if she had forever. But she didn't want forever. She was half hoping- that when she died- if she ever made it to heaven.... she'd be able to see.

Chi lifted an eyebrow. The was a reason that she hadn't mentioned what the weapon was. She did hesitate, but only for a second. "I'll tell you, only because I pray to the Goddess that you won't use it on me. Even if mortals, such as yourself are rash in their actions and often regret what they have done. A wooden stake straight through the heart, the only way to truly defeat a vampire. Your aim has to be true and your have to be quick."

chi couldn't help but being amused. "I've been to a lot of places little one. I was born in China and managed to find my way here, traveling across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, even visiting Egypt for a bit. Then I came here, I like it, it's so young compared to the rest of the world. i saw kings and queens fall, religions come and go, like the ocean's tide. Unfortunately nothing lasts forever, except for vampires." Forever was a long time, but she always found something to do, it kept her busy and enthralled with life. Mortals made life interesting with their unpredictability, you never knew what they were going to do next.