Be Careful When You Bite Me

The more I walked the more I discovered, more closets, more rooms, more of everything, but still no dungeon. I walked through the kitchen where Damon and Isabelle had been and wondered who Isabelle even is. It was clear that she had a certain romance with Seth but there was something with Damon too. Besides the Queen, she was the only other vampire girl I've met.

And been bitten by.

I had been walking for what must have been half an hour before opening up a pair of double doors that led outdoors. Not completely outdoors, just a few meters of grass before large metal gates lined the perimeters making it impossible to escape. I decided to take what I can get and walked on the grass, breathing in the fresh air that felt like the only normal thing left in my life right now.

I squinted my eyes and looked up at the sun. I realized I hadn't actually seen or felt the sunlight on my skin for days now and also realized that everything I had done outside the castle walls had been during the night.

I wondered if it was true that vampires couldn't be out in the sunlight and if that's why the castle was so quiet.

Are they.... sleeping?

I searched the trees in hopes of finding a bird or a squirrel, something to remind me of life before The Underworld but I didn't see a living creature anywhere. I let out a soft sigh and was about to head inside when I felt my shoes touch something that wasn't grass. I looked down at my feet to see a large square piece of metal that almost resembled the doors of an underground tunnel. The word dungeon echoed in my head as I reached down and slid my fingers underneath in an attempt to lift it up. I felt dirt slide up in my nails but continued to pull at the piece of metal. I was almost convinced that it was merely a piece of scrap stationed in the ground until the door lifted up abruptly, sending me flying backward. I stepped forward and opened it all the way, revealing a dark wooden stairway leading down into the ground.

My breathing quickened and I stood restlessly in confusion.

do? Do I

journey down the creepy stairs but a majority of me was

of images that should have sent me running in the opposite direction. The sudden image of the lady in the village came to my mind. I saw her fall to her knees and cry out for the guards to spare her son. The pain in her voice had been so desolated, almost as if she had lost hope and

heels and looked around in

the sunlight is the reason they aren't out right now to shout at me for being out....if that man is down there right now...how would I sneak him out of the

somehow hide him until I figured it out

would be

thick metal gates and wondered if he got up on my shoulders if he could somehow reach, but there was no way. The gates had to be at

I had to see if he's alive and if he is, I could come back up and figure the rest out

would just go back and get him. There's no

ringing like alarms in my head and instead, took a step closer towards the stairs and

few more steps down

the sound of a breeze, almost like wind

step down and prayed my feet wouldn't land in water or manure as I