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had to remember me. I would make her remember. Little did I know the journey to return her memory would be the hardest odyssey I attempted in my mortal life and my immortal existence. Nevertheless, I wanted her in my arms again, and I could not think of anything else. I wanted her to remember me, and I would do whatever it took to accomplish that task. I no longer wanted to exist without her. This nightmare of an existence was monotonous and isolated. However, with Ellie’s return I was sure I would find the rest of my existence would never be monotonous or isolated again. Although, I welcomed a little excitement, I feared I was in for more than I wanted to know.
    My attention remained on her. My eyes continued to follow her throughout the time it took her too settled in her seat. She was aware I was watching her. I knew her abilities better than anyone. She knew her surroundings and paid close attention to anyone she thought was a threat. How could she think I was a threat to her? I loved her more than humans loved the air they needed to breathe, even more than the skin that covered my soulless body.
    I knew they took her memories from her, but I could feel her powers were still as forceful as they ever had been. Including the power, she had over me. She knew my every thought. She read minds and could change the attitudes of anyone. She controlled the four elements of the universe: earth, air, fire, water. She was more powerful than I was in many ways, but the love I held for her was stronger than any power she maintained. My mind focused on her thoughts.
    “Dear God,” she thought I was insane. I couldn’t believe it. She thought I was a mental case. The sound of my non-beating heart became worse than the eerie silence it normally maintained it was deafening. How could she think there was something wrong with me?
    My mind drifted to thoughts of our past life together. I was the only one of my kind. I wasn't a pureblood vampire nor was a Witchyre. Ellie did use her vampire abilities to bite and change into an immortal, but she wasn't a true vampire. She told me I was the only one of my kind that existed. A human being was never before changed into a vampire by the witchyre heritage. This was illegal. She had no reason to lie to me. After all, fabrications were not one of an immortal’s flaws. They were not like that of the human kind. Immortals were brutally honest. Perjury was a learned human quality, and witchyres never learned anything new. They didn't feel the need to learn anything, because they felt they were perfect. Now, my Ellie with her attitude of perfection was telling me she didn’t know who I was. Not to mention, she thought I was crazy.
    She didn’t realize I was reading her mind. She thought I was an ordinary vampire. With her memory gone and not realizing she was my maker, she didn’t know she transferred some of her abilities to me. These abilities were what made me different from any other vampire. I had exceptional strength and would live forever, but I also had abilities that an ordinary vampire didn’t have. That was if you could ever call a vampire conventional. Nonetheless, when she realizes I could read her thoughts, she would be shocked. I had to let her know I knew what she was thinking. She had to know I wasn’t just a normal vampire.
    I was different. I wanted her to know she changed me. I wanted her to remember telling me that this change made a dove of a man turn into a soaring Eagle. This tender dove was what humans saw as the spirit of the soul, and the representation of a new horizon of life everlasting. However, when she changed me, I manifested into an eagle. This eagle was full of strength and insight to the spiritual world. An eagle that was quick and deadly unlike the dove. My change was so fast that the eagle inside of me engulfed the dove. It swallowed it whole and gained its spirit. My strength now suffocated the soul of the dove, and with the eagle's insight on the horizon,