Chapter 423: Momentary Connection

Penelope followed the vampire through the dark bent trees surrounding his castle. Her eyes followed the unnaturally curved trees to the bright opening at their center where the greenhouse must have been.

"Why did you do this to the trees?" She asked. It was so bizarre.

"I like the dark. The island was supposed to be dark, but Nedra couldn't do it," he told her. "Instead we have this incessant sun. But the plants like it."

So he liked plants… that explained the greenhouse of course. It was interesting that he had chosen to keep an opening where the sun could shine through so that he could keep a greenhouse. This hinted to there being much more to him than the cold, heartless monster that anyone would assume him to be.

"I wonder how it has affected the lycans and alyko here to not have the moon and its phases," she wondered aloud.

"They do not seem to be negatively affected by it," he replied, following the well-worn path that led out of this dense forest and into the sun.