Julie, who sat next to Roman, stared at him as he explained to her about the things that had happened in his past and how Veteris came to be, "I am sorry about what happened to your family, Rome." She placed her hand on his, which was resting on the bed.
She didn't know how he had pulled himself after what he went through and still remained the way he was. Her heart ached for Roman, who had lost his family in front of his eyes, when he was young, not knowing how much pain he had gone through.
"It's fine now," remarked Roman, exhaling air through his lips. "My friends and I, including Griffin and his friends, had been woken up a year before we were admitted into Veteris."
"That's why you have your graves in the cemetery… because you have been in there," Julie murmured to herself. "Doesn't the long sleep affect a vampire's body without blood?"