A Talk With An Old Dragon 1
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When Violet finally woke up, finding herself within a Realm of Endless Shadows, the first thing she thought was that she had died and was in the Underworld, where the Goddess of Death Hel governed.
It added to it that there were even Undead around, skeletons, zombies, and even a group of strange people, led by an old man with a long beard. She thought that they had died young with their old master, pitying them.
However, the more "alive" she felt, the more she realized that she wasn't actually dead. In fact, she had gone through an almost dead-like experience already. Her body was taken away, her soul was almost completely eaten, fused with that of a wicked vampire.
But right now, she was not dead, and as the memories of her past kept coming and going, mixing with the memories of the present, she quickly realized that she had been revived, somehow.