Room 8

Zikku walks in and looks around the clean place. Her hand automatically gropes the side of the wall for the light switch and flicks it up to turn on the lights. "Nice place" She closes the door behind her and stuffs the key in her leather bag. She takes the bag off her shoulder and places it on the bed, then sits down next to. She looks over at the night stand and sees a little advertisement for Sephira The Opera Singer. Zikku picks up the little paper and examines it. Musician wanted. "Hmm... maybe I could try for it." She puts the paper back on the night stand and slings her leather bag over her shoulder. Zikku ges up and leaves her room for Black Raven Opera Theatre. She locks the door before leaving the Inn.

Zikku rolls a little bit to the left and opens her eyes a little bit to get a good look at Zedeki. "I thank you, dear brother." Breathing normally now, she sits up still drowzy.

He looks over at her. "My sweetheart, you need rest now. I have everything taken care of. We'll see how you do in the morning. For now, sleep." He shows off his handsome smile at her and motions his hand for her to sleep.

She nods, causing her head to feel overwhelmed. "In the morning then, brother" she reminded herself. She took the warm rag off of her lap and placed it on the night stand next to the bed. She layed back down and rolled over to the right this time. She closed her eyes and quickly fell fast asleep.

Zikku wakes up the next morning, right as the orange-ish sun was peeking through the trees on the other side of her window. She sat up and moved the blankets from her legs. She twisted and placed her bare feet on the bone-chilled floor. She looked over to the smoldering fire, then to Zedeki and saw that his head was still resting on his palms and that he was asleep. She stands up and tip-toes to the closet, not making a sound. Zikku grabs a purple, floor-length skirt and a fancy, button-up, black shirt that matched the skirt. She tip-toed to the bathroom next and changed into them. She grabbed a fine velvet cloak, rimmed with the finest bear fur from the closet also and threw it around her shoulders and tied it over her collar bone. Slowly she makes her way to the door, opening it and sneaking out with disturbing Zedeki. Once outisde the Inn, she heads towards Charles Bridge.

Anara walks in with Zikku. She saw Zedeki.

*Who is he?*

Anara turns to speak to Zikku.

"How are you feeling? Is the wound still hurting you?"

"My name is Anara. We are hunting a lycan that tried to force Zikku into marrying him."

Anara pulled out the ring that Bozomu used to enslave Zikku.

*I'm going to have to destroy it... it's a good thing that Alucard left it behind in the hospital...*

Anara turns to Zedeki.

"And what's your name?"

Zedeki rubs his chin in though with his fingertips. "Well, my name is Zedeki, but that really isn't what is most important here. Who was it that had attempted marriage with my sister?"

"Some lycan named Bozomu or something like that... He used this ring that I pulled out. It's magical you see, and Bozomu used the stored magic to enslave Zikku. I remember seeing her in the Old Town Square during the enslavement."

Anara looked at the ring with a sickened expression.

"Good idea, Zikku. I would suggest that we ask about the lycan in an area with a lot of people. He would be drawn to that. I'm new to Prague, so do you have any suggestions?"

"Is there a concert going on right now? It does seem like a good place to investigate... But if there's no concert, then no one would be there at this time of the day."

Anara looked outside. It was almost morning.

"Well, we have to start somewhere."

*I wonder why her neck is peeling like that? Is it really what Alucard said... that she may be becoming a lycan?*

"Since it's almost morning, Bozomu should turn back to a 'human' soon."