36 You can't hide from me

Lili appeared back at the prison where Jennifer and Isabella were waiting for her.

"Did you find him?" Jennifer was getting impatient after five hours of waiting.

"Yes!" Lili gave Jennifer a map showing where Alexander is.

It was a cute colored map with a lot of drawings.

"She put him There? Why?" Isabella asked while looking at the map.

"It's because she needs him close to drain his blood"

"What?! That's disgusting"

Jennifer didn't bother explaining and started thinking about how to get there.

"Bye big sisters" Lili said goodbye but both sisters were too busy thinking and didn't hear her.

Lili didn't want to bother them so she entered the golden door. A few seconds later, the door disappeared.

Inside the white room, Lili sat on her bed and started singing.

"I wonder how long it will take him. Mother took twenty years the first time. I hope he finds it soon, it was fun..."

After she got bored of singing, she started painting on the walls. The paint and brush were gifts from Shira who created all the items inside the room in a way they wouldn't be destroyed after the door closed.

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Alexander quickly raised his proficiency at manipulating his soul. He got an idea and wanted to test it out, but he needed more control over souls to do it.

What he wanted to do was simple, track down someone using their soul. He wanted to find the golden door via Lili's soul.

He spent around twenty hours practicing enough to see some traces of Lili's soul around the room. But he didn't want to make the little girl wait too long.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not running away. I'll come back later" He said as he broke the chains restraining his feet to the wall. He couldn't break the ones on his wrists tough.

In one jump, he reached the window and looked outside. He was really high up as he looked down and the clouds blocked the view from below.

Then, he jumped and the wind hit his face as he passed through the clouds. He could see houses, vampires, guards, and the forests surrounding the huge city.

He memorized everything while searching for Lili's soul.

Getting closer to the ground, he used natural steps on the castle walls. Slowly, the speed at which he fell lowered, and its strength dissipated.

Alexander stepped onto the ground without making a sound like a feather as if he made a light jump.

He didn't want Shira to get too mad at him so he decided to go back as fast as possible without causing problems. He used shadow steps constantly to avoid being seen.

He saw stores, houses, restaurants, and a huge amount of people everywhere.

As someone who spent his entire life in the forest or inside closed spaces, it was interesting for him seeing so many people for the first time.

After two hours of walking, he explored the entire city and made a mental map of everything while trying to track the soul he wanted to find.

He didn't find anything even after looking through the whole city. But he still needed to explore the forest.

He went out of the city by jumping the walls. Once again, inside the forest, he could move way faster with natural steps. After four hours, he finally found what he was looking for.

He went deeper into the forest and ran straight west. He climbed up a small mountain and went close to the top. Reaching the place he wanted, he punched the ground.

*Bang!*

Making a large hole, he jumped inside. He entered a big cave. Alexander took a while to explore everything inside. He had a general idea of where it was based on the traces left but he didn't know the exact location.

As expected, after an hour, he saw the golden door standing in the middle of a lake on a little island. Easily hopping on the island, he inspected the door.

It had so many beautiful details, the cravings looked like they would step out of the door.

After admiring it for a bit, Alexander grabbed the handle to open the door.

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Shira was having a hard time after drinking Alexander's blood. She felt like the first time she had ever drank blood.

She was having trouble controlling her thirst and the blood she stored through the years tasted terrible now.

Shira needed to train herself all over again to get used to the thirst again. Sitting on her throne, she looked at the big door while tapping her fingers. After a few hours, she felt it was enough and decided to go get some more blood.

She quickly reached the top of Alexander's tower, but when she entered, she couldn't find him.

"He escaped?" She couldn't understand why would he do something so stupid when she warned him not to do it.

If she was in a better condition, she might have thought a little more but the thirst for blood was clouding her decisions.

*BANG*

She jumped out of the tower furiously looking for Alexander while destroying the walls in the process. She was mad and wanted to make him pay for defying her.

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Lili was painting the wall while humming her favorite song. She was painting a giant dog holding a puppet in its month while another person ran after him.

*Click*

She heard the sound of the handle turning and her little head turned to the side...

When Lili saw the open door, she dropped the brush and her eyes widened.

It's only been one day. She had a big clock at the side of her bed and she used it to mark the time along with a calendar.

She was used to waiting decades, centuries until someone found her. Her family has other things to do besides looking for her all day, at least that was what she believed.

Alexander entered the room while looking around.

"It's such a pretty room... Way better than my cave"

"..." She didn't say anything and stood there paralyzed.

"Sorry for taking so long to find it, I'll be faster next time"

He thought she was mad at him for taking too long.