Alex's gaze did not change. What happened was tragic, but that didn't justify what they were doing.
"And? Are you the only one suffering? Those you betrayed and sacrificed also lost many things. Everyone has suffered."
Lena laughed again. "There you do it again! Judging us from your high place, like this is all our fault!"
Alex never deflected the blame. Although he wasn't a progenitor yet at that time, the whole weight of the race's history was still on his shoulders.
But Lena could not understand this. The moment she felt Alex's progenitor aura, it gave her the feeling of meeting a superior being.
One that was always above her. That was why she felt like this.
Normally, the reaction one would have was to surrender to that being's will, but Lena was from a generation born into servitude.
All she had ever seen was the whole race being abandoned. She had never seen vampires at their glory.
She pulled her fingers down. Her chest split open.
