As she walked home to Chaltres where Paige lived she thought to herself how much she liked being like this even if she was unsure what exactly she was she knew she was one of the undead now but Marie had called her Lasombra and said it in such an important way and that guy called her a sabbat whore..she was definetly no whore but what was sabbat? these things if she ever got the chance again she would ask Marie and instictively she knew that asking would be dangerous, how had Marie said it , "like the others you will be punished", she didnt like that idea to much. The woman that offered her hope was also one to be feared and for now all Mercedes had was Paige and this she knew.She walked into Paige's House at a Quarter to 6a.m. and began talking with Paige who seemed to have more questions than ever because now she was playing mother hen and wanted to know exactly where Mercedes had been,"Chantel, what have you been doing its nearly 6 a.m. and your just strolling back in , after you pull a 5 year absence from all our lives and worry us to death. I have been on the phone with father and he wanted to see you right away..",Paige stopped midsentence because she had noticed that Mercedes' color was back and was it possible she looked more alive than ever?.Slowly Paige asked "Chanta what have you been doing?" Mercedes looked directly at Paige. She had called her Chanta something she only did when she was truly scared, this startled Mercedes she had only known Paige to ever be frieghtened 3 times in all her life.She saw Paige make a cross quickly to bless herself and asked,"Why?" She knew her sister was into voodoo and saw and sensed way more than she did but would Paige ever really believe that she could hurt her?Paige was the mother Mercedes never really knew as her mother had died over 15 years ago.Paige was her mother and no sister/Daughter could love their mother more ,Mercedes would fight the hounds of hell for Paige (and now she knew she just might),why would Paige be afraid?Mercedes simply said," I went out with a friend tonight we had 1 to many drinks, she got tipsy I took her home", she made a small shrug and said,"simple".Paige stared unbelieving what she felt from this thing that inhabited the body of her sister, she knew it was dead but yet it stood before her and looked like, talked in her sisters voice now even smelled like her sister.Her many years of teachings told her what Mercedes was. She knew the legends of vampyres had even raised a soul that had claimed to have been killed by one, but here her little sister/ her daughter stood and she knew with the power inside her that Mercedes was one of the undead. Instinctively her hand touched the small pouch she wore around her neck( the grisgris)and again made the cross sign what should she do ?She began to tell Chantel she had to leave but those eyes those were her lil ones she could not,a long time ago when she was 10 the night they had been told her mother had been in an accident.
