The Adventures of Lolita Absinthe told by Lucius Valentine

Tears in Rain

Lolita and I were watching Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow

when her phone rang.

She got off the couch, picked up her phone and walked

out of the living room to talk in hall.

I looked through her movie collection, again, and noticed

that there was another movie that stood out in her collection.

Next to her dvd of The Great Caruso stood the dvd of

Blade Runner with Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.

After a few minutes, Lolita walked back into the room and

sat on the couch again.

'Who called you?' I asked when I got back on the couch.

'Just a friend from school. If I wanted to go and see a movie

with her tomorrow night.'

'Which movie?'

'Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.'

'Are they taking every fairy tale that exist and turn it in some

sort of Gothic adventure movie?'

'Probably!'

She turned her attention to the movie we were watching and

didn't say a word until the movie was finished.

The next night Lolita was with her friend watching

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters in the movie theater,

so I decided to grab a drink in the bar.

I walked through the door and noticed there was a lot of blood

on the floor and on the tables.

'Lodovico? Is that really you?' I heard an aggressive voice ask.

'If my ears and memory do not deceive me I am hearing

the voice of Ardolf Mingan.'

Ardolf appeared from behind the bar, his mouth was covered

in blood, and he looked like he had just transformed back

into his human form.

'Why did you come here and why did you attack the people

in the bar?'

'I needed some blood ,' Ardolf replied, 'and that's the answer

to both questions actually.'

'But why attack the only people he have to hide their secrets?

Why attack people similar to you and I?'

'Because they were worthless. The only thing they did was

hide in this bar, hoping that society wouldn't judge them and

forget about them.'

'You know I must kill you now!'

'I know, but you won't. You love having me around. The last

city you lived in accused you for killing their beloved beauty

queen, so I killed them all so you could flee.'

'Shut up!' I growled and lunged towards him.

Ardolf turned into his wolf form and swatted me against