The Return: Shadow Souls Chapter 23

That â€Å"night† they moved in, picking the hour while different bequests they passed were obscured and calm. Elena, Meredith, and Bonnie each picked a room on the upper floor as a room, all near one another. Close by was a lavish washing room, with a light blue and white marble floor and a one of a kind pool formed like a goliath rose, completely huge enough to swim in, warmed by charcoal, with a happy looking hireling to tend it. Elena was pleased with what occurred straightaway. Damon purchased various slaves discreetly, in a private deal from a decent seller, and afterward expeditiously liberated them all and offered them wages and downtime. Practically all the previous slaves were very much glad to consent to remain, and just a couple decided to leave or fled, generally ladies looking for their families. The others would remain and become Lady Ulma's staff once Damon, Elena, Bonnie, and Meredith left in the wake of liberating Stefan. Woman Ulma, was given a â€Å"senior† room first floor, in spite of the fact that Damon nearly needed to utilize savage power to introduce her in it. He himself picked a room that was an office by day, since he wasn't probably going to go through a great part of the night in the house at any rate. There was a slight shame over that. The vast majority of the staff knew about the methods of vampire aces, and the little youngsters and ladies who came to sew or who lived on the home and cooked and cleaned appeared to anticipate that a rota should be worked out, with every one of them alternating at being contributors. Damon disclosed this to Elena, who subdued the thought before it could be executed. She could tell that Damon was seeking after a constant flow of young ladies, extending from flowerlike to red-cheeked and ample, who might be happy to be â€Å"tapped† like brew barrels for the pretty bangles and trinkets that were generally given. Elena correspondingly discarded chasing for employ. Sage had referenced that there were even bits of gossip about a potential Outside association: a propelled instructional class for Navy SEALs. â€Å"And they can come out the world's just vampire seals,† Elena had said scornfully, before a gathering of male slaves this time. â€Å"They can go out and chomp sharks. Absolutely you folks can go out and chase a few people like a couple of owls chasing mice †simply try not to get back home a while later, in light of the fact that the entryways will be locked†¦permanently.† She maintained eye contact with Sage until her demeanor turned into a steely glare and he'd rushed off to accomplish something different around the domain. Elena wouldn't fret Sage's casual moving in with them. Furthermore, subsequent to hearing how Sage had spared Damon from the crowd that trapped him while in transit to the Meeting Place, she had decided as far as she could tell that if Sage at any point needed her blood, she would offer it to him unhesitatingly. Following a couple of days, when he had remained around the house close Dr. Meggar's and afterward moved with them into Lady Ulma's compound, she had thought about whether her reduced emanation and Damon's hesitance weren't denying him of something he should think about. So she'd tossed more extensive and more extensive indications at him, until once when he had multiplied over, and afterward, with tears of giggling (however had it just been chuckling?) in his eyes, had approached her and said that the Americans had a colloquialism, no? You can lead a pony to water, however you can't make it drink. For his situation, he stated, you could lead a growling dark jaguar †her ordinary mental famous picture of Damon †to water, in the event that you had electric cows nudges and elephant ankusha, however that a short time later you'd be an imbecile to walk out on it. Elena had snickered until she, as well, cried, however had still vowed that on the off chance that he needed her blood, a sensible offer was his. Presently she basically felt happy to have him around. Her heart was too full as of now, with Stefan, Damon †and even Matt, in spite of his obvious departure †for her to be at risk for succumbing to another vampire, regardless of how terminally fit they were. She acknowledged Sage as a companion and defender. Elena was astonished at the amount she came to depend on Lakshmi as every day passed. Lakshmi had started as a kind of gopher, doing the going around that nobody else needed to, however to an ever increasing extent, she had become Lady Ulma's house keeper in-pausing and Elena's wellspring of data about this world. Woman Ulma was still authoritatively out of commission, and having Lakshmi prepared whenever of the day or night, to send messages, was superbly advantageous. As well, she was somebody that Elena could pose inquiries of that in any case would get her peered toward as though she were insane. Did they have to purchase plates or was food served on a huge hunk of dried bread, which went about as a napkin for oily fingers too? (Plates had been as of late presented, alongside forks, which were extremely popular now.) How much were the men and lady of the family unit qualified for in compensation (which must be determined without any preparation, since no other family paid its sla ves a geld, simply garments them from a network uniform store, and permitting them a couple â€Å"feast days† a year)? Youthful as she might have been, Lakshmi was both legit and intense and Elena was prepping her to become Lady Ulma's correct hand, after Lady Ulma had gotten all around ok to be the woman of the house.