The Return: Shadow Souls Chapter 23

That â€Å"night† they moved in, picking the hour while different homes 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 an extravagant washing room, with a light blue and white marble floor and a one of a kind pool molded like a goliath rose, completely huge enough to swim in, warmed by charcoal, with a happy looking worker to tend it. Elena was enchanted with what occurred straightaway. Damon purchased various slaves unobtrusively, in a private deal from a good seller, and afterward quickly liberated them all and offered them wages and downtime. Practically all the previous slaves were quite glad to consent to remain, and just a couple decided to leave or fled, for the most part 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 animal 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 significant part of the night in the house at any rate. There was a slight shame over that. The greater part 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 suppressed the thought before it could be actualized. She could tell that Damon was seeking after a constant flow of young ladies, extending from flowerlike to red-cheeked and curvaceous, who might be happy to be â€Å"tapped† like lager barrels for the pretty bangles and doodads that were customarily given. Elena comparatively discarded chasing for recruit. Sage had referenced that there were even bits of gossip about a potential Outside association: an exceptionally propelled instructional class for Navy SEALs. â€Å"And they can come out the world's just vampire seals,† Elena had said cynically, before a gathering of male slaves this time. â€Å"They can go out and nibble sharks. Unquestionably you all can go out and chase a few people like a couple of owls chasing mice †simply try not to get back home a short time 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 bequest. Elena wouldn't fret Sage's casual moving in with them. Furthermore, in the wake of 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 decreased quality and Damon's hesitance weren't denying him of something he should think about. So she'd tossed more extensive and more extensive clues at him, until once when he had multiplied over, and afterward, with tears of chuckling (however had it just been giggling?) in his eyes, had approached her and said that the Americans had an idiom, 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 puma †her ordinary menta l notable picture of Damon †to water, on the off chance that you had electric cows goads and elephant ankusha, however that subsequently you'd be a blockhead to walk out on it. Elena had snickered until she, as well, cried, yet had still vowed that in the event 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, notwithstanding his evident abandonment †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 formally confined to bed, and having Lakshmi prepared whenever of the day or night, to send messages, was magnificently helpful. As well, she was somebody that Elena could pose inquiries of that in any case would get her looked at as though she were insane. Did they have to purchase plates or was food served on an enormous hunk of dried bread, which went about as a napkin for oily fingers also? (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 slaves a g eld, just apparel them from a network uniform reserve, and permitting them a couple â€Å"feast days† a year)? Youthful as she might have been, Lakshmi was both legitimate and intense and Elena was preparing her to become Lady Ulma's correct hand, after Lady Ulma had gotten all around ok to be the woman of the house.