Broad Daylight

Charlotte watched in fascination as Vincent knocked lightly on the bricks to hear how there was a different sound that came off of every single one of them. Some sounded sharper than the others, likely to signify how it was hollow inside or something along those lines.

Most people wouldn't hear a difference, because to be honest, Charlotte couldn't tell a difference either. But she was able to see how Vincent was able to maneuver depending on the sounds.

He tilted his head with a frown before he pulled out a golden circular mirror from his pocket that she didn't realize he had only to notice that it was a pocket watch which made sense as to why he would carry it around.

He seemed to be a man who would carry around a pocket watch despite it being severely outdated for their time. Most people could just look up at the taller buildings that had a large digital screen that displayed the time, weather, temperature, and other details that were needed throughout the day.

Technological advancement was heavy, but it wasn't to the point where there were flying cars and sliding mental screens yet. There were many experiments per usual, but Charlotte didn't care too much to look at the news for the greatest development of each season.

Once something new was introduced into society, and it became used on a daily basis, then she would have to get herself inclined to use it, but for now, she wasn't one to think that artificial intelligence was taking over the world.

Instead, her head was filled with the thought of how vampires and vigilantes were on the brink of a war that could potentially explode any moment and bring humans into the mix which would be the shock of the century.

She didn't know how humans would receive the news that vampires were real. There would have to be a political turn over alongside with many people having to hover around their day in terror.

She hoped that wouldn't be the case since vampires were not depicted how they were often seen in the movies. They weren't hostile from what Charlotte was able to tell, but they had to feed somehow.

There might be more ethical ways to do this if the topic was brought up to human attention but for now. Charlotte wasn't going to spearhead that movement since it wasn't her place to do so at the moment considering all that was occurring firsthand.

Charlotte got the impression that vigilantes were still humans, but maybe a subspecies as the vampires were from the generational lineages. She would have to ask Vincent about that further, but that was what she was able to take away with the information that she had gathered and was given from Vincent.

Charlotte turned her attention back to Vincent as he shined the pocket watch up into the light that was able to squeeze its way through the hidden alleyways, and Vincent pointed it over at the bricks only for some numbers to come up in the corners. It felt like something out of a movie, and Charlotte covered her gasp with her hand.

"This is beautiful," Charlotte whispered. "Does any reflective item work?"

Vincent shrugged. "That was what Sonya said. I haven't gone through this door before, but it seems quite self-explanatory once you get the directions."

"What if someone sees you?" Lucia said. "You are doing this in broad daylight."

"To be able to get in, one would have to know," Vincent calmly responded.

Charlotte lightly touched the number that came up in the corner with the tip of her fingertips in curiosity. They were written very lightly, so to people walking by, no one would be able to see them. It wasn't even deep enough to register as well since the numbers themselves were tiny and hard to make out.

The numbers went all the way up to twenty from what Charlotte could see since the bricks themselves came out slightly with a shadow underneath them to mark each brick. Charlotte watched with her arms crossed and looked over to Lucia who was frowning, and Charlotte lifted a brow.

"What's up with you?" she asked.

Lucia sighed. "It's nothing. I'm ready to gas out guys."

Stone walked over to Vincent's side. "Once we get out of here and over to the cabin then we'll all be resting."

Charlotte nodded. "Yes. With how their bodies work, they're going to have to go into a deep sleep Lucia."

Lucia shook her head to show that she didn't understand why, and Vincent continued with the explanation. "We will have to go into a deep sleep that seems as though we are dead without a resting heartbeat if we don't want to deal with our blood lust along with not getting our fill for a while now."

"I see," Lucia said slowly.

"We won't need a coffin though," Stone said dryly. "You can look for a grave to lie in if you're bored."

Lucia rolled her eyes at his comment, and Charlotte laughed lightly with her shoulders shaking knowing his harmless words.