Anja

“Yes,” Drake nods. “As descendants of the first vampire, we have the ability to master time travel through specific portals around the world. I did so by the age of fifteen.

“I travelled all through time, meeting weird and wonderful people. Yet I had only ever gone back through time; the future had not interested me at that point.

“It was my eighteenth birthday when I decided to travel forward. I ended up going much further than intended. I was aiming for 1850; however, I ended up in 1970.

“Of course, you can imagine my surprise when I realised where I was. The modern world was very different from what I was used to. Motor vehicles of all kinds everywhere, aeroplanes, televisions. An invention most fascinating.”

“How did you meet my mother?”

In 1970 my mother would have been almost the same age as Drake; she would also have been betrothed to Leopold. They were to be married a week after her eighteenth birthday.

“I bumped into her quite literally and by accident. The moment our eyes me