Enid looked at her father in the suit with the tie with a careful eye, they had spent the last month inside learning English and the modern world. Enid straightened his tie. She was wearing a different face then her own. He kept looking at her strangely.

“What?”

“You can just do that? Change how you look? I thought you said we were stuck like we were when we were turned.”

“I learned this from someone. Now, we’re going to see the local vampire Lord, when you enter a new Lord’s territory you are required to announce your presence. Kind of like how I described countries and their customs and borders. It lets them know you’re around and if you go missing, they can keep an eye out for you. I’m pretending to being the long-suffering spawn of an elder who was told to teach you the ropes after you were in a sleep for a long time.”

“What’s your name?”

“Albert Smith. But that is not what it says on these papers.”

“Those papers are for the human world, the vampires, don’t care, we take and shed identities as required, who was your sire?”

“Palanius, a Roman vampire.”

“When were you turned?”

“Before Christ.”

“Good. Good. This is formality. The local Lord is an asshat, but he doesn’t tend to look too deeply at new vampires. He knows my real face so hence the disguise. Shall we?”

Her father nodded and she led him to the car and drove to the Lord’s court. Which happened to be an Insurance Company’s offices. She parked in the lot and motioned for him to follow her. She looked up at the glass walls. Remembering the last time, she was here in the 1960’s. She walked up to the front doors and pressed the buzzer.

“We’re new?”

She waited patiently until the doors were opened by a couple of larger security guards. The motioned them inside. They were checked for weapons and motioned onwards. Enid felt a presence in the building. Her gift was giving her all sorts of bad feelings. She put her hand on her father’s arm, it was only the second time she had made non-necessary physical contact with him. He looked at her as if sensing her unease. She spoke in their native language.

“Something’s not right. Be on your guard.”

“The sight?”

Enid nodded. She released his arm and began to walk again the doors to the office which had been updated in the last sixty or, so years were opened by more security. Inside sat the Lord, his name was Geoffry. She knew he was created some time in the Middle Ages. She kept catching glimpses of something out of the corner of her eye. He stood up and shook their hands.

“So, you are newcomers to Seattle. What brings you here?”

“My creator told me to bring him here to start a new life. He just woke up after a long sleep.”

Enid caught it again in her peripheral vision. Someone carrying a stake. She kept her eyes on the Lord in front of her.

“Let me stop you right there, Empress.”

Enid frowned.

“Who?”

“Your husband and the council have been looking all over for you, I’ve been ordered to send you home.”

Enid frowned. He had this shit eating grin on his face like the cat that had just caught his mouse.

“You have a problem Pugmentia, I’m here and they are not. Do you really want to do this?”

He gave a small nod, and she felt the stake pierce her back. When she glanced back and saw her third Seer Agatha, the least loyal stumbling backwards with wide eyes when Enid didn’t suddenly collapse. She had her hands up she was begging in Latin.

“Mercy mother, mercy!”

Enid snarled and reached out her hand and clinched her fist and Agatha was lifted by an invisible force she was writhing as her bones started to compact. Then Enid lifted her silver sword with her other hand and pinned her through the heart onto the wall she twitched there.

“You are no longer my Seer or my Daughter, I mark you betrayer to your family and your oath. When you leave here you will be hunted forevermore by your sisters. May your death be swifter than I want to make it.”

The Lord stumbled backwards against his armored wall his security and the other Pugmentia in the room started to trample each other to flee the wrath of the angry Goddess they had let into their midst. She altered time and by the time anyone else in the room had noticed had the Lord pressed up against the reinforced wall next to Agatha. She pulled the silver sword out of Agatha who collapsed on the ground. She was still trying to heal the massive wounds Enid had inflicted on her. She couldn’t stand because her bones had been shattered into dust. Enid slowly pressed the sword into the lord’s shoulder watching the blue light flare as his skin burned around it.

“I am the Empress, the council and my former husband are pretenders. You picked the wrong side.”

She pulled the sword out and stepped back. The Lord stayed there leaning against the wall.

“I did not know, I will be loyal to you.”

“Too late!”

She looked down at Agatha who stared back up at her, her eyes wide with terror. Enid snapped the magical blade in half she took the half with the point and let it hover over her hand and then flung it at the Lord and it pinned him to the wall through the heart. She could smell his flesh sizzling. Her father had pressed himself against the opposite wall watching his daughter with wide, frightened eyes. Enid pulled Bloodseeker out of her pack and sliced it along Agatha’s face and chest who screeched as her flesh sizzled under its touch. Then with one swift strike she lopped off the Lord’s head. She watched as everything that had been him was drawn into her blade. She pointed it down at Agatha.

“I took the gift of beauty I gave you. Now pray to your gods that you do not see my face again after this night Betrayer. Because if you do, Bloodseeker will drink your soul. That is the only mercy I will grant you.”

She looked at her father.

“Change of plans, let’s go before they recover. I can take them all, but I can’t protect you at the same time.”

He was staring at the desiccated remains of the Lord. He looked like he was going to vomit. Enid slapped him on the face.

“Snap out of it, once they regroup we’ll have a real fight on our hands. And you’ll probably die.”

She held out her hand to him. He took it and she pulled him along behind her. She caught a few stray silver bullets which she ignored for the most part. The hail of bullets stopped after she let out a telekinetic burst that slammed all the furniture to the edges of the building. By the time they reached the parking lot the security and vampires were running in every direction. She saw someone back their van into their car. She sighed, and looked around, saw a woman, or vampire who was female in life, struggling to unlock the door of a black SUV. She grabbed her from behind and yanked the keys out of her hand.

“You should probably run now.”

She tossed the vampire several feet. She watched her turn into a blur as she ran away. Enid unlocked the car and motioned for her father to get in. She kicked off her heels, got in, and started the engine and slammed her legging covered foot on the gas running the car over the curb and some grass and onto the road. The rear end swerved, and she felt it threatening to roll so she readjusted. Bullets started to pelt the SUV. She grabbed her father’s head and pushed it down into the emergency break and her lap. She held I there driving one handed. She saw a car giving chase. And the gunfire had stopped so she let her father’s head up and grabbed the E-brake forcing the SUV to take a far sharper turn then it was meant to she felt it lift on two wheels then slam back down. She pushed the emergency break down and slammed her foot on the gas and the SUV shot forward. She saw the car skidding trying to stop and lose control and hit a lamp post. She looked at her watch.

“Helen call Enid.”

Enid waited while the phone rang. She heard it pick up.

“Mom, how’d the meeting to go with the Lord of Seattle?”

Just then another car appeared behind them. The SUV wasn’t the fastest thing in the world. There was another hail of bullets from behind shattering the rear window.

“We had a setback.”

“Were those gunshots mom?”

“Yes.”

“What did you do?”

“This was in no way my fault. They knew who I was and tried to take me home to Lucius.”

“How the hell did they think that would end?”

“Not the way it did, they had one of my Seers there, Agatha.”

“Oh no, did she hurt you?”

“Hardly. Is Elizabeth still there?”

“Yes.”

“Put her on.”

She waited while the phone changed hands. She swerved around another corner. Her father had his hand on the grip above his door his knuckles were white. He seemed to be having trouble processing the nights events.

“Empress, how may I serve you?”

“I have broken Agatha’s sword, she is branded a traitor. Her blood is forfeit. Let all the Seer’s know. A hunt is called.”

There was a long pause.

“I will spread the word, Empress. We will take back what she has by her own hand forsaken. Do you need help? We have another Seer in Seattle Empress.”

“No, tell her to hunt Agatha. Put Eyre back on please daughter.”

“Of course, Empress.”

Enid’s tires squealed and the SUV went up on two wheels again as she made another near impossible turn.

“Mom, what do you need?”

“A clean car. I have our back up ID’s. We’re going to have to ditch this thing its full of bullet holes. I’m going to steal one, but I’ll need a car with clean tags and registration to get across the border.”

“Are you crossing at Blaine?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll have one waiting for you there. Check the usual place.”

“Okay. I need to assume my cell and smart watch are compromised. I will plant them so I will be radio silent until I can get a burner.”

“Good luck mom. Come home safe.”

“You know I always do eventually.”

Enid tapped her watch and pulled into the lot of a closed furniture store. She saw two cars approaching at a high speed.

“Father, you need to get your head down and stay down. I’ll deal with this…mess.”

He looked at her.

“I am a warrior, I can fight.”

“I know, but I swore I would keep you safe until you were prepared, you are not prepared, this is my duty as your adoptive sire. Our people take that promise seriously, stay down and stay out of my way.”

Enid got out of the car and reached into her pack and pulled out an RPG launcher and casually put it on her shoulder. She saw the cars trying to turn around, but one was too slow. She launched the RPG and hit in the passenger compartment. The sports car exploded in a fireball that lit up the nights sky. She let the RPG launcher dangle over her shoulder and glanced back at her father who had not done as she had told him and was instead looking between her and the wreckage of the car, she had just incinerated. She shrugged.

“I didn’t say I was going to fight fair. Get out. We need to torch this one too.”

She reached in thought of an incendiary grenade for the launcher and it formed in her hand and she slid it into the barrel. She motioned for him to stand back with her. She stood about fifty feet away and launched the RPG again and the SUV was engulphed in flames. She slid the launcher into her pack and dusted her hands off. Her father was staring down at her. His face showing a mixture of awe, pride and horror.

“You… they… they had no chance against you. You just squashed them like they were insects.”

“I didn’t start this fight. They did. I was just going about my business.”

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“You didn’t even touch that woman and you crushed every bone in her body. And that sword. That sword is so evil. I could feel it hungering for me. And that fire launching stick. Is there no magic you cannot do?”

“Necromancy.”

Enid shrugged.

“Come on father, we need to go, they’ll get their confidence up again. Thinking I ran out of ammo. I haven’t, I have crate of the grenades in here.”

She patted her pack. He nodded and followed her. She ran into an Alleyway. Once there she pulled off her blood covered clothes and pulled on her Atlantean armor and let the hair and facial features change. When she finished and turned around, he was leaning on one of the walls behind her. He was staring at her back. She snapped her fingers then slapped him again.

“Snap out of it. We need to move.”

She stuffed the bloody clothes she’d just removed into her pack and started moving on. Her father blinked; He looked a bit sick to his stomach which was ridiculous considering he was a vampire. She groaned and shoved him forward. He finally started moving after that he kept looking at Enid’s back. She saw pulled him close and pulled the shadows around the pair when a police cruiser drove by slowly. She cursed under her breath. She tugged him along and clocked a dealer and his protection on the street. They were leaning on a car that would do for her purposes. An early 2000’s black sports car. Fast enough to evade police cruisers, non-descript enough to fly under the radar and owned by criminals who likely wouldn’t report it stolen. She pushed her father against a nearby wall.

“Stay here.”

He nodded. Enid vanished from his sight and when he peaked around the corner, he saw her tear out of the shadows. With a flying knee to the back of one of their heads. Then the second protector pulled out his gun she pressed it to his chest and twisted snapping his wrist. Then struck him under the chin with her palm. He went up in the air half a foot and before he hit the ground Enid’s hand had stuck the dealer himself in the neck with enough force to cause him to choke. The first man she hit had started to get up and she brought her foot up catching him in the chin and he fell back down. She took their guns and put them in her pack. The dealer was staring at her while gasping for breath the other two were too out of it to give any further struggle. She looked at the dealer and leaned down her hand out.

“Keys.”

He shook his head while rage staring at her. She put her foot over his knee which was just past the curb while he lay on the street.

“I’m going to make this bend in a way it was never intended then while you’re trying to scream but can’t I’m going to take them anyway, so keys, please.”

He tried to spit at her but couldn’t manage it while choking. She shrugged stepped on his knee there was terrible popping sound and he tried to scream but couldn’t, then she searched his pockets for his keys and his wallet. She looked down at him again.

“Should have just given me the keys.”

She motioned to her father to follow her. He looked at the three men she had just thoroughly disabled without the use of any of her vampiric abilities and looked back at her and got in the car.

“You don’t even need to be a vampire to be dangerous, do you?”

“No, I do not. It’s actually easier to fight humans without our powers because then I don’t have to restrain myself so much. One slip up and they’re dead if I’m using my full strength.”

“Why didn’t you kill them?”

“I didn’t need to; I just needed their car.”

She started digging through the compartments as they drove and tossed several bags of drugs onto the road but slipped several rolls of cash into her pack. He watched her doing all of this still with little context. She looked down at the fuel gage.

“Full tank of gas, we’ll get to Blaine, get a motel room, get you somewhere dark, then tomorrow night we’ll go across to Canada. Fuck, fuck, fuck. This should have been easy, how the hell did they figure out who I was?”

Her father rode silently beside her while she talked through the situation, not really addressing him at all. He kept glancing at her then back out the window. Enid had lapsed into silence lost in her own thoughts. Her father finally spoke up.

“Where are we going? What is this Canada?”

“It’s a country to the North. We’re going home, well my home. I didn’t want you anywhere near it but it’s the only real safe space we have. The vampires in the city there know their place and leave us alone. I was hoping because the Lord in Seattle was so loose with the rules we could slide under the radar, get you introduced and just be done. I fucking swear this is the worst fucking outcome besides both of us being dead.”

“Why did you not want to take me home?”

“Because I can’t trust you. You beat me, raped me, repeatedly and tried to kill me. A year ago, you’d be dead right now and I would have enjoyed it. Why would I let you near my daughter? My sister, or my charge? I’d have to be insane.”

He nodded in agreement.

“You should drop me off here.”

Enid blinked at him.

“What?”

“Stop the car, let me out, I will not be your burden any longer. You have proven you can show mercy to the man you hate most in the world. There is no need to torture yourself further. Or take me back. I’ll kill those vampires until they kill me, or they capture me. I’ll tell them you went back to Scotland. Let me protect you like I should have when you were a child.”

His voice was calm. She sensed no anger in his voice, no resentment, her gift knew he was ready to do this, and his motives weren’t selfish. She looked at him again then back to the road shaking her head.

“No. I claimed you as my charge. I take that seriously and I will not just dump you here. You can’t win me back with an act of sacrifice, you can’t redeem yourself.”

“I am not trying to win you back, or redeem myself, I’m trying to protect my child. I know you could just go home right now if you wanted, but you aren’t because you’re protecting me. I refuse to do you more harm. Every moment you spend with me is torturing you. I can see it in your eyes. Stop the car, let me out, let me do one good thing for you with what I have left of this existence.”

“Your sacrifice would be useless, they aren’t after you, they’re after me and Lucius would know I wouldn’t lift a finger to help you if you begged. At least that is what he would remember. You wouldn’t even slow them down.”

“I am slowing you down. You are taking risks you otherwise would not. I saw you in that place, you knew it was trap, but you went in anyway, desperate to be rid of me, and I cannot blame you. Now you have branded your own child a traitor and are on the run.”

“That was different.”

“Was it? She was helpless, begging you for mercy. You have a darkness in you that I put there.”

“She betrayed me and everything she swore to uphold. It has nothing to do with you.”

“I suspect it has everything to do with me daughter. It is what I would have done when you were a child. I likely would have killed her at the end, but not you, no you decided to let her live so she could be hunted down like a dog.”

“I can’t believe you’re judging me. You of all people, butcher, rapist, abuser. I let her live because if I had killed her, her immortal soul would have been obliterated to feed my sword. She can live, all she has to do is avoid her sisters.”

“You turned her sisters against her, your other daughters. Now you are going to force them to hunt her. You have a monster in you daughter. One I am the cause of, I can never make amends for that, but I can stop torturing you with my presence.”

“No! I will not let you question my actions. There are laws, laws that need to be enforced equally for all. An assault against the Empress is an assault against law, the consequences are death.”

“Yet you did not kill her when you had her at your mercy. Is it because you cared too much, or because you wanted her to suffer first?”

Enid growled at him trying not to speed as much as she wanted to slam her foot on the gas.

“You had her in your grasp, you broke every bone in her body I heard them snap one by one. That wasn’t done in the heat of anger, it was calculated to maximize suffering and fear. I know how fast you can move, you could have used her sword and beheaded everyone there before any of them could blink. You wanted them to see a Reaper beg for mercy, their nightmare tossed around like a straw toy, you wanted them to run, to spread the word of how powerful you are. I saw it in your eyes, you were relishing in their fear.”

Enid scoffed staring at the road.

“You wanted her to be an example to her sisters, this is what happens when you betray your mother so they know fear. As you saw me do in the village when warriors betrayed me. Tell me daughter, your enemy, the Black Son, what would he have done in that situation?”

Enid didn’t respond to him. He lapsed into silence and looked back out at the passing scenery. After several minutes he spoke again.

“You can grant me all the mercy and forgiveness in the world, but if you cannot be merciful to your own child, who in her mind was just trying to take you home to your loving husband, how can you hope to do it for your worst enemy who has been trying to kill you for a couple thousand years? I am sorry I have done this too you.”

He sighed heavily and looked back out the window. Enid stared at the road ahead. The truth her father had just laid bare before her stung worse than any of the physical trauma he had inflicted on her as a child. She thought about what Junpei, Sextus, and Nobuyuki would think of her behavior towards Agatha tonight and felt a deep cutting shame. She felt blood dripping down her cheeks from her eyes. Her father noticed the blood.

“You’re bleeding are alright?”

Enid just nodded, unable to form words. She wanted to pull over and curl up in a ball. All these years and her abusive biological father was the only one who could get through her thick skull what Jesus, God, Jenpei, Sextus, Eyre, Nobuyuki and so many others had been trying to tell her. Even Lucius. The truth was, she had a monster inside her, and it needed the monster that created it to bring it into the light.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, god damnit, when vampires cry we have no other fluids in our body’s besides blood. So, its blood. Shut up and let me focus on the road, I think you’ve said enough.”

“Enid, let me get out, I’m slowing you down.”

“No, I promised I would protect you until you were ready to be on your own. I’m going to keep that promise if it kills me.”

“I am not worth it.”

“You aren’t, but my principles are, it is apparently the only thing I have left in me that are of any value to the world. Now shut up.”

As if to reinforce the point she turned the radio on and pressed a random channel button. Enid sighed as Into Dust by Mazzy Star started playing. It suited her mood, so she left it be. Her father looked back out at the passing trees. They reached the outskirts of Blaine. Enid parked on an overlook and got out of the car and wiped the dried blood from her face. She looked at her father who had also gotten out of the car. He stepped away from the overlook. Enid lifted the car over her head using the armor’s strength to enhancer her vampiric strength and heaved it with an overhand throw. It crashed into the water and started sink. Enid had left the windows open. Inside it were her cell phone and smart watch. She dusted her hands off and looked to her father.

“How heavy is that?”

Enid shrugged.

“Couple of horses?”

He blinked at her and looked out at the sinking car.

“I hope you never have future cause to hit me.”

She shook her head and the pair started walking along the side of the road Blaine. She stopped at the first motel they saw. She pulled out a mirror and adjusted her body and features to match one of her ID’s. Her father watched her, still amazed by the process.

“If I asked you to teach me that, would you?”

Enid paused and looked at him with her now brown eyes.

“I would, but you would need to share something equally of value. Also, you’d have to drink more of my blood which would risk you becoming bound to me.”

“You are my daughter; I am already bound to you for life. Neither of us has a choice in that.”

Enid shrugged.

“Perhaps if, if I agree to see you after you are considered an adult in our society and you discover a valuable ability to trade then I would be willing.”

She went back to adjusting her features. Unless she had the form memorized which was difficult to do with more than two or three different shapes she it took her several minutes to transform. She could become Sarah, Old Sarah, or Melanie at a whim or revert to her true shape, anything else took a lot of effort and blood. She looked at the mirror and the ID to ensure she matched. Alice Dunn had brown hair, brown eyes and was a photojournalist, she was also thirty years old, and slightly chubby. Enid was starting to realize she changed identities like other women changed make up and outfits. Once satisfied she put the mirror away and pulled out a thousand in US dollars.

“Well let’s go get shelter for you.”

The pair walked to the front of the Motel and walked inside. It was right next door to a no tell motel, but at this point Enid didn’t care. When it came to sunlight any port in the storm was the vampire motto. She opened the door and let her father go in first. The harsh flickering fluorescent lights were doing no one any favors. The person behind the desk was a larger goth girl wearing a black shirt that declared, ‘The world is burning’. She was leaned over a thick textbook. Which Enid noticed was a bar exam prep book. The girl didn’t look up. Enid tapped the bell. The girl responded by lifting one finger tipped with black nail polish and continued to read. After five more minutes she looked up at the pair through a pair of large black framed glasses.

“Can I help you?”

“We’d like a room for three days.”

“I’m sure you would.”

Enid did her best to ignore the implied tone of her words. She narrowed her eyes at the woman and slammed her ID on the desk.

“Preferably something with the least windows possible.”

The woman raised an eyebrow. Enid tapped her fingers on the counter. The woman looked between them. Enid fought the urge to tug her across the desk and punch her as much as it would be therapeutic for her right now.

“That will be three hundred dollars, and I’ll need a card, please.”

Enid slapped the thousand dollars on the counter.

“Room key.”

Enid reached out her hand and wiggled her fingers in a gimme motion.

“No need to be rude.”

Enid took a deep breath as the woman picked up the money and counted through it slowly. Pulling out three hundred dollars and putting it aside. Then sliding the rest across the counter.

“Card please.”

Enid slid the money back towards her.

“Just take the cash, keep whatever is left over in the morning I don’t care, room key now.”

The woman muttered something under her breath and held up her finger and started looking through her computer and glancing up at the pair every time she changed a screen. With a frown she took the money and put a key on the counter.

“Check out is at elven am. Room cleaning is at 12.”

Enid reached into her pack and put another three hundred on the counter.

“Make sure no one bothers us at all, for three days. Understand?”

The woman took the money and counted it, narrowing her eyes at the pair again, then with her same snarky voice said.

“Enjoy your stay.”

Enid took the key and spun around storming out of the office her father following behind her glancing back at the person behind the desk.

“I am still new with this language, was she being rude?”

“No, she was being a power tripping bitch. Mortals, give them a bit of power and they think themselves kings of their world.”

She stopped and looked back at the office. She looked up at her father.

“Wait here.”

She walked back to the office, and he watched through the window as Enid leaned over the desk staring the girl in the eyes. The woman stood up and kissed her, Enid pulled her neck close and bit into it drinking deeply then let her go and walked back out licking her lips.

“You, just bit her.”

“I used a lot of blood tonight. Our supply is back in Seattle. I figured it’s the least she could do.”

“How did you seduce her so fast?”

“I used my powers, don’t worry, there were no cameras.”

“Oh, those are what I need to look for before I use anything flashy, or bite someone.”

“Yes.”

“May I go drink?”

“No, she’ll die if we take much more. Also, I didn’t force her to kiss me. I just asked if she liked women, and if she was rude because she thought I was attractive and asked her if she wanted to kiss me. Obviously, she did. So, I doubt she’d be open to your advances. Not that you’ve had a problem with that in the past.”

He tugged on his collar and didn’t meet her annoyed look. She unlocked the door and shoved it inwards. She stepped inside and closed the door and locked it, and the internal locking bar. She looked in the bathroom, confirmed there were no windows.

“Sun is up in twenty, twenty-five minutes. I’m going to leave now, when I do, you will lock the door just like this.”

She pointed at the door and both of the locks. Both the keyed one and the bar.

“Then you’re going to go in there and lock the door as well. And put these over you in the tub.”

She grabbed the thick blanket and comforter off the bed and shoved them in his arms. Nearly knocking him off balance.

“Got it?”

“What about you?”

“Sun doesn’t bother me anymore. You didn’t think I had my own secret room in the houses, did you?”

He nodded.

“I’ll be fine, I’ve been doing this for way longer than you. Follow my instructions to the letter and you won’t be ashes in the morning. I won’t be able to watch the room I have things I need to do so we can get on the road as soon as possible after dark tonight.”

“You got the room for three days…”

“Yes, and if anyone traced us here, they’ll waste resources watching the room for two extra days hoping we’ll come back.”

“But you changed your face.”

“Doesn’t affect our scent and we have vampires who are excellent trackers. I’ll get a room somewhere else and get changed and cleaned up. Don’t worry, I’ll use a credit card there to draw their attention away from you.”

“Stay in the room until I knock on the door and tell you it’s me. I’ll tell you the name of your hunting dog that way you’ll know it’s me. Actually wait…Lilith knows that. First English word you learned. Okay?”

He nodded.

“Are you sure you will be safe?”

“You saw me take an army of vampires on while in the midst of their stronghold, do you really think anything can hurt me now?”

He sighed and shook his head.

“Just be careful.”

Enid looked up at her father who was a foot taller, and her gift sensed only genuine fatherly concern which vexed her.

“You know if you’d just behaved like this when I was three, six, or ten even, we’d both be long dead and would have lived happy lives. It’s a little late to be the concerned father.”

She put the room key on the nightstand, unlocked the door and stepped outside. She looked up at her father again.

“Your concern is unnecessary but appreciated, you should be worried about yourself, lock the doors, cover yourself up, I’ll see you after nightfall. If you think of it, maybe grab a shower after you wake up.”