Kapitel 36: Annabelle

After walking up 3 flights of stairs in silence Kai, Bob and Penelope arrived on the third floor. There was one hallway that lead them to the director's office, however, there was a door barring entry to the office.

Penelope looked at Kai coldly and said, "I stop here sir, to get to the director's office just open the door and let Annabelle lead you in." After Penelope finished speaking she turned around abruptly and left, descending down the stairs. Leaving Kai standing at the entrance to the hallway with Bob laying on his shoulders.

After Penelope left Bob opened his eyes and looked at Kai before laughing at Kai. He extended a paw while laughing hysterically and said in between his laughter. "The moment you asked if you could buy the paintings she wanted to kill you. Hahaha, she must have thought that you were some rich arrogant brat who was about to learn here."

'Cough, cough' Bob started to cough because he had laughed too much. "Oh, shut it, Bob," Kai said in an embarrassed voice. "We both knew that I was testing her after all both these paintings were painted by the same person however you could see that they were painted in different timelines right you stupid cat?"

"Oh, you know very well that I am not stupid Kai and yes I also spotted that. Well, I assume that the painter is either the founder of the academy or one of the ancient supernatural creatures residing in the academy, considering the fact that two of his paintings managed to be put on the walls of one of the most prestigious schools in the world."

"As a result of what I've seen from Penelope's reaction we can understand that the painter is extremely important to her, so he must have an important role in her life.

Also, Bob did you manage to find out what creature she was? Because I've got some guesses, but I can't be sure." "No, unfortunately, I haven't come in contact with enough supernatural beings. I've only seen magical creatures." "Oh, that's a shame, well let's meet that director now," Kai said to Bob and finished the telepathic discussion.

Kai walked towards the door at the end of the corridor and pushed the handle down softly and pulled the door in his direction. What greeted Kai was a large stereotypical office. A few books on shelf cabinet that was leaning on the wall. In the centre of the room, there was a large desk with a computer screen placed on it. In addition to the screen, there was a keyboard and mouse along with many documents stacked and categorized neatly in the corner of the desk.

In the office's surroundings, there were many metal cabinets full of what Kai assumed were other documents. Sitting behind the desk was a beautiful lady that had a kind of mature beauty compared to Penelope who seemed youthful and full of vitality.

As soon as Kai walked through the door with Bob on his shoulders, lifted her head and looked at him try to judge his capabilities. Kai did the same to her and tried to find out what her capabilities were. He used his senses to try and discover what species she was.

Kai managed to pick up an extremely slow heartbeat, slower than Penelope's in addition to a smell of a jasmine flower coming off her body. In addition, she had electric green eyes that glowed unnaturally.

She had pure black shoulder length hair with the ends curling upwards. She wore simple black framed glasses that tried to hide her beauty but failed to do so and instead made her seem more intelligent. She had a small straight nose and light red lips that caused Kai to have an impulse to run over and kiss them.

"Hello there, miss I'm assuming that you are Annabelle?" "Yes, and you are Mr Natasa correct?" "Correct, before I meet the director I would like to ask you if your eyes are naturally that shade of green or are they contacts?"

"I get this question a lot, but they are naturally this shade of green."

"Well, they are simply electrifying." Kai tried to flirt with her, just to see her reaction. He had no intention of dating anybody I the Harry Potter world for the time being. He had many places to explore and had no time to stay routed chained down to one place because of a girl.

"Thank you," she said to Kai, seemingly not caring much for his compliment. It seemed that she took Kai's complement simply as common courtesy.

"So, I will escort you to the director if there is nothing else." "Wait I would like to ask what kind of perfume you have on you, it smells great and I would like to get if for my girlfriend."

Kai tried to bait her out by getting an answer from her and finalizing her identity. He assumed that she was a vampire but wasn't sure. Even while talking to her he was also speaking to Bob telepathically, trying to figure out her identity.

"It's a natural scent, so I believe it would be hard to duplicate it." She said while a small smile appeared on her face. After all who wouldn't want to be complemented by an extremely good-looking person of the opposite gender.

Kai needed to try one last test before entering the director's office. While following her through the room he pretended to slip and bang his hand on the edge of the table. He used one of the blood strands in his body to replicate blood, of course, this wasn't real blood but merely a copy.

But for the experiment, it was enough. He made a small injury on his hand that had banged into the desk and made the blood pour out of his wound while at the same time delayed the regeneration process.

Annabelle whipped her head around while her nose instinctively twitched, and her eyes shined dangerously. However, she quickly managed to control herself and pushed down her urges and walked to Kai and asked him if he was feeling unwell.

While she was pushing down her vampiric urges Kai had gotten a good view of her appearance and had managed to confirm that she was indeed a vampire.

Kai replied to her that he was okay and pulled out a handkerchief from his inner breast pocket that was inside his coat. He tied around his wound and once he was sure it was out of sight he stopped delaying his regenerative abilities and let it heal.

In less than a second later the wound had healed completely and all that was left of the wound was the blood strand that was smattered over his hand and on the handkerchief.

Kai reassured her that he was okay and then when she was sure that he was okay she led him into the director's office.