I felt like I had been sleeping for a long time, my body was stiff but I felt well rested. I had to be lying in the most comfortable bed in the world and I could feel the silk of the sheets I had been covered with. I was grateful that the pain was gone and I kept my eyes closed for a while longer. I remembered everything that happened in that field but I knew nothing of what took place after I had passed out. As I thought of it I felt my cheeks grow slightly hotter in embarrassment. Some vampire hunter I turned out to be.

I slowly...