Free Secret Of The Crest by Demetra Gerontakis

she let me go and turned away telling the man to leave. He asked her what she was doing and she answered him, “ Vasili, not now! ” And they quickly ran off.’
    Gregor was surprised.
       ‘Did you say she said Vasili?’
       ‘Yes, why do you ask?’
       Gregor bit his lip.
       ‘That is a common name in these parts, we cannot know who it was since there are many with that name here.’
       ‘What did they want of me, Gregor?’
       ‘I am sorry, but from the way you described their moves I am sure they were ghouls.’
        ‘If that is the case, then why didn’t they rip me to shreds?’
      ‘I haven’t an answer for you but I am grateful that you were left unharmed. Now, let’s return to the others before they come looking for us’ Gregor said in a hurry wanting to avoid more conversation. Cassandra on the other hand didn’t want to let it go.
       ‘I can’t quite understand what happened back there. She was going to do something bad to me and changed her plans when she saw my necklace. Her eyes became gentile and her growl had ceased. Then, when she heard my name her eyes turned sorrowful and I felt her pain as she turned away. She looked as if she was sorry for attacking me’ Cassandra was saying.
       Gregor asked her in an angry voice now.
       ‘Did she say she was sorry?’
       ‘No, but her face sure showed it.’
       ‘Cassandra, they were ghouls! They do not say sorry or ask for any forgiveness! They do not repent and they have no feelings what so ever! All they care about I is to drink from you. Do not let your guard down for a minute when you are out here again!’
       Gregor tried his best to make her hate the ghouls by scolding her.
       ‘Okay, okay, I get the hint!’ she replied but inside she let her questions arise.
       ‘Let me see your necklace, please!’ he told her in a lower toned voice.
       She pulled it out and to his eyes came forth a beautiful gold locket with two old worn pictures. One was of a Cassandra as a baby and the other of her mother. He looked at it for a moment and closed it shut again. Engraved upon it was a cross and decorated around the cross was a chainlike line entwined with the letter D many times around encircling the cross. In the back it was engraved “ Cassandra ” and the date of her birth.
       ‘Well,’ Gregor said lying through his teeth, ‘There is a cross on this necklace and that is what stopped them from their hideous act!’
       ‘Yes, but where do the questions she asked fit in? Why didn’t they just run when they saw the cross?’
       Gregor realized it wasn’t going to be easy to make Cassandra forget the incident.
       ‘They probably realized hitting on an outsider would cause international panic and they might lose their feeding ground if more hunters were brought in to seek them out.’
       ‘Perhaps you are right! I hadn’t though of it that way. I was so terrified I still can’t think straight! I’m surely not going any further than where the group is again!’ she said and continued. ‘And you know what’s worse? I didn’t get the chance to take a picture of them.’
       Gregor called out to the rest of them that were now in his site again.
       ‘Okay, listen up. We all need to stay together at every moment from now on because we almost had an attack.’
       Everyone looked at Cassandra. Sarah went next to her to ask if she was alright.
       ‘What’s wrong with you? Didn’t Gregor tell us to stay in sight? What would we have done if something awful had happened to you, love?’
       ‘I am absolutely fine and I am sorry that I scared you all but I didn’t do it deliberately. I actually got carried away. Anyway, it was a close call.’
       While all the commotion was going on Sam took pictures one after the other of Cassandra as she explained then he stopped for a moment and asked her a question.
       ‘Cassie, tell us all about it!’
       ‘There’s really