Chapter 8: Kaya Aiesling (2)
’I—I can’t look away,’ Kaya thought.
At first, that was because she found Caius so pleasing to look at, and really, who wouldn’t? But then, it went farther than that. She physically found it hard to look away.
She blinked a few times as a normal person would but those split-second breaks from staring into Caius’ eyes didn’t help her pull her attention away from them. Especially since he never looked away.
The longer she stared, the more she was convinced there was something in those violet orbs that she wasn’t seeing well enough. Something mysterious. Some unnatural charm that just made her curious.
Caius stared too but as he did, he allowed his mind to wander just a bit.
Kaya was one of the major characters in the original story and, at least at the start, she had more agency in the story than Caius Von Helsing did.
Almost from the get-go she was on Aurelius’ side and was part of his gang of friends who went on adventures together and/or dealt with the threats he faced as the Main Character.
Of course, while that was happening, Caius had been an outcast by choice and tried his best to relate less with people for fear of triggering his bloodsucking desires.
That was obviously going to change but certainly not in service of Aurelius and his ’Main Character’ plots. Those meant little to Caius when he had the task of securing partners he could feed on for his Vampiric evolution to worry about.
The minutes ticked by and Professor Melvin kept going on and on about the Theory of Magic and talking about laying foundations for strong magic when everyone in the class already knew Third Circle spells. Even without the intense stare exchange he was having with Kaya, Caius wouldn’t have paid attention to that anyway.
In contrast, Kaya thought,