(eng) P. S. Power - Eve Benson 01 by Finally Dead

Author:Finally Dead [Dead, Finally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter eleven

Rolling, Eve decided, was the best she was going to manage for a while. She wasn’t actively being beaten anymore, but trying to stand up too close to the other Vampire wasn’t going to work very well. She’d just kick her in the head. She knew that from her one failed attempt to do so already, which had sent her flying backward toward the sitting area.

So, she kept moving that way. Not that it would offer escape from the pain of the attack. Everything that Lenore was doing came in far too fast for that. Eve had tried to block already, and had managed it, one time out of the twenty or so hits that had come in.

She didn’t groan though, not bothering to breathe. It was probably inevitable that something like this would happen. It made her angry, but it was also a thing that she’d planned for. After a fashion. She’d been ready for attacks like this to come, in order to train her, but there had been no mention of such lessons being attached to philosophical concepts in particular. This one was confusing too.

Not the basic message of trust no one. Everyone kind of knew that one, on some level. If they didn’t, then Eve had to kind of envy them. To be that innocent must be nice, while it lasted. If she’d ever been that way, it had been so long before that she didn’t remember it.

So, that part was clear enough. Even the fact that she was going to be hit until she figured out how to get the other woman to stop. After which she’d probably start hitting again. Just to drive the first lesson of not trusting people home. It was practically something out of a movie, right?

The trouble was the deeper level of things.

“Trust no one, but we still have to, don’t we? Work together and have faith in people to do the right thing, or at least serve their own best interests…” She said this as she got up, ready to try and block again.

Eve had to get faster, didn’t she? Focusing she tried to pay as much attention to Lenore as she could, only to find the woman standing there, relaxed, ready, and blank faced. That was so she wouldn’t goad Eve to rage, by mocking her with a smile?

When she spoke there was an almost dull tone to her words, they were so flat.

“Indeed. Our Culture, like many others, thrives on cooperation. The difference there is that we also have a strong tradition of betrayal. You must have contacts, friends, and those that will stand by you, but you must also not come to count on them to act or react as you think they should. Today I’m hitting you. Tomorrow it may be a close embrace and gentle kisses. The same is true with the other beings you know, to greater or lesser degrees. Zack is a wonderful soul, but also a Greater Demon. There are forces acting on him at all times that you and I can’t know.

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