When I came back he was devouring tons of fishes. Eating like crazy.

-Easy boy, easy.-

-You said I needed to eat three times my weight-

-Yeah, but despite that, you still need blood, like humans need water. If you don't drink blood, you will get desperate to drink it. You need blood as much as humans need water.-

-What do you mean?-

-Think, when you're human, you're thirsty and you take sips of water from time to time, same with blood-

-But how am I supposed to get water like blood?-

-Like this- I said while calling a chambermaid.

A beautiful chambermaid came in, she was young, and she immediately felt an attraction to us.

-Watch and learn- I said to him.- Miss, we'd like you to join us tonight.- I said approaching myself to her. I waited for her eyes to meet mine till I finally got her completely under my power. I hypnotized her like humans say.

-What's wrong with her? Is she paralyzed?-

-Don't get scared. It's part of the game- I took one of her hands and bite her, and tasted her sweet blood.

-I don't want to kill her- he said scared.

-We won't. You need to learn to take what you need, like if it was water. You need to learn to control yourself. And don't worry about the marks, our marks heal easily on humans.-

-So she won't have any after we're done?-

-Exactly, she won't. We'll keep this one here till we're done eating, later we'll call another, when we're thirsty, though you need to learn how I did what I did, but with time you'll learn. We'll have plenty of time in the ship-

-I'm thirsty- he said hesitating.

-Drink, don't be scared.-

-What will she feel tomorrow?-

-She will be tired, and maybe a little pale, and dizzy. But all she will remember is fake memories I'll put in her, though she'll have the feeling she doesn't know how she could lose track of time like that-

-Will you teach me that too?-

-Of course, besides I do want to teach you other things too- I said while kissing his neck, putting my hands on his shoulders, going down his body. He stopped me.

-I don't feel comfortable with that-

That had never ever happened to me, which made me want him more. I decided not to carry on with that, I had so many things to teach him first.

We ate with hunger and I made jokes about our chambermaid wine. By her age I guessed we had a 1920 vintage chambermaid. Then we asked for another when we let that one gone, this time a 1900 vintage chambermaid.

-I know what you're thinking- I said- Unlike wine, with blood, the younger the better. By the way, let me teach you something, it's an art-

I took the wrists of our new chambermaid and cut it with a knife gently, not too deep, and let the blood fall on our glasses, like if it was real wine. When I filled both of the glasses, I licked the cut so it healed immediately, like our bites.

-It's good that we can feed from people like that-

-But remember to always drink often, otherwise your thirst with end you up killing someone. We also must be careful, because you could try to hypnotize a hunter, the hunter would  remember being a hunter and try to kill you.

-We're at a constant threat.-

-Yes, in some way we are.-

After we were done with our meals, we let our last chambermaid go. We tried sleeping, it was late, the sun was really hard.

-When you made me, I saw things... of you-

-Yeah, you probably saw part of my life, it happens, it bounds you with me. It happens to us all, to see part of the life of our maker-

-But in those things I saw... you were human-

-I hope you didn't see much then-

-I saw you wearing weird clothes-

-That's because I'm very old-

-You were scared, crawling for your life-

-I was made against my will, remember? Now sleep, tonight we have to go into that ship to get you home-

-You are right.-

It was too soon to talk to him about how I had gotten turned into a vampire. I have been a vampire since Caesar Augustus had imposed the Pax Romana.

Twenty minutes after the sunset that day, when we were boarding the ship, I felt something, a presence. Something was watching us. I could feel it.