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Ellie, confined to quarters, meets and befriends 12/13 year old blond Lyla, the Counts blind, but psychic human servant girl. Ellie is sorry for her and being a Psi as well offers to lend her the use of her eyes and for the 1st time Lyla sees herself through Ellie’s eyes- though everything is from Ellie’s perspective.

Ellie could easily have escaped and even rescued the Doc. The Castle mutants and unnatural creatures would have been no match for her considerable psi abilities.

There was for one little thing keeping her from this option…Thrall Hold. Thanks to that she couldn’t so much as stir a leg outside her rooms without the Counts permission.

Before Ellie knows it she’s married to the Count and sharing his bed. At least she was awake for the ceremony though. She came to him and asked a favour, two actually.

The first, is though she doesn’t know the specifics of a vampire wedding ceremony she would very much like Lyla to be her attendant… Lyla can use her eyes for the duration.

The second is she would like to be awake and aware for the ceremony. She has no intention of causing trouble and even if she could fight the Thrall hold, he still had Doc Reiche as his hostage. All she wishes, since this will likely be her first and last wedding, is to be awake for it… even if it frightening or painful… it’s her wedding too and she’d like to be awake for it.
She has no illusions about what’ll happen to her when the Count tires of her so she’d like to make the most of this part at least.

Her requests sets the Count roaring with laughter, even as he admires her courage… he’s never met a human like her before and grants her requests.

The ceremony isn’t what she would have imagined for her wedding or the man she is married to, one she really wants… but hey, a wedding is a wedding.

She determines to make the most of things. Having a pretty good idea of the fate of most of her predecessors she determines to be as boring as she can in order to make the Count lose interest faster. She wishes to get her eminent destruction over with as quickly as possible as she has no chance of escape. - But she’s very bad at being boring. She’s a bright and vivacious person even under Thrall hold and can’t hide it. She even entertains Lylia - Mirai, the Count’s daughter who disapproves of her father’s dalliances.

Young Lyla allows Ellie to see and speak with Doc who’s still in stasis but rouses when in her presence.