Conner awoke the next day with the sun nearing the top of the sky. He<br/>jumped out of bed and as he landed on the floor every muscle in his body ached.<br/>He had realized before he went to sleep the night before that he needed to go<br/>and check back where he had slain the vampires and the wolves; something just<br/>didnt seem right. He got dressed and made his way down the stairs. he walked<br/>through dining area of the inn, the aroma of fresh bread and sausage sizzling<br/>over a fire filled his nose. he pushed the door open and the cold air of the<br/>seasons changing from fall to winter hit him in the face; suddenly he was very<br/>glad that he had grabbed his cloak before he left. conner pulled his collar up<br/>and made his way to back to where he had tracked the vampires two nights ago.<br/>As he retraced his steps his thoughts turned to his actual job. He had been<br/>doing it for a couple years now and was having thoughts about his "war". Other<br/>than him being attacked earlier in his life by vampires he had no reason to hunt<br/>them, and he had never been harmed by any of the wolves. He siged for he knew<br/>that none of this mattered, he had fought in the war and now he had to see it<br/>through. This thought had ended right when he had come up the little shack he<br/>had seen preiously.<br/><br/>He walked back inside and found his way back to the<br/>coffins, the bodies of the vampires still laid lifeless on the floor. He<br/>looked around for any clues of more vampires, really he was looking for<br/>anything that he could use in this on going effort t eliminate the undead. Alas<br/>he could not find anything useful and returned to the cold air outside. As he<br/>started walking back towards the town he heard the familiar sound of a train<br/>arriving at the cotswald station, he had heard the trains come before but they<br/>had never really stopped there in that little town;they had always blown their<br/>whistle and kept going deeper into the countryside. He decided that he would<br/>take a slow pace back to the inn in an effort to stretch his legs and to get<br/>rid of the aches and pain that he felt in his body ever since he had woken up.<br/>Time seemed to slow as he walked allowing him to think about everything that<br/>had brought him to this point in his life. He quickly pushed those thoughts<br/>from his mind because he hated thinking about his past, it brought him to much<br/>pain. He tried his best to think about anything else and turned his attention<br/>to the rustling of the leaves and the cloud of smoke billowing from the smoke<br/>stack of the train as it departed the station. As the temperature dropped he<br/>quickened his pace and arrived back at the inn just before nightfall. He<br/>followed his normal habit of walking into the inn's dining area and sitting<br/>at a table with a seat that faced the door. As he sat down he, for the first<br/>time since he walked in, looked around at all the familiar faces that he had<br/>seen before and one that he hadnt.<br/><br/>She was like a dream, her soft features<br/>and stunning beauty was in sharp contrast with the dreary surroundings she<br/>was inhabiting. Her hair intrigued him for it was as white as winters first snow<br/>and the way it fell onto her shoulders and cascaded even farther down out of<br/>his view mesmorized him in a way nothing had ever done before. even the way she<br/>positioned her delicate hands on her legs as she sat there at her table drew<br/>him to her. He had been staring at her for so long and so intently that he had<br/>realized that his food had arrived, but when he looked back up to look at the<br/>rare beauty that he had just seen sitting not far from him she was gone. He<br/>didnt know why but he felt empty, suddenly he felt alone. He couldnt shake<br/>the feeling and he hated that he felt that way. he had been hunting for years<br/>and over the years he had spent time in the pleasuring company of many women<br/>and still had never felt what he was feeling now, and all because of the way<br/>she looked. He looked around to see if he could see where she had gone but<br/>there was no sign of her. Feeling defeated he finished his meal and went<br/>upstairs, he couldnt get her out of his mind and he thought that maybe if<br/>he tried to sleep than he might see her again in his dreams.