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Tigest Girma
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What happened in Immortal Dark?
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Nineteen-year-old Kidan Adane believes her sister did not run away. She’s convinced a vampire took June Adane to Uxlay University against her will a year ago on their eighteenth birthday. She remembers struggling against a locked door, watching as a man gathered her sister and fled. Dean Faris from Uxlay, receives multiple letters from Kidan asking for her help. But the dean has no clue where June is.
Kidan gives herself eight months to find her sister. After their parents died, Aunt Silia brought her sister and her to Mama Anoet’s.
They were taught that three binds were placed on vampires that restrict their full potential. The First Bind forces vampires to only feed from specific families. The Second Bind restricts some of their strength, and the Third Bind requires a heavy sacrifice when they turn a human into one of them. The powerful Last Sage gave acti, the eighty families whom vampires can feed off as companions, power over their houses to set laws. When peace between vampires and humans was forged, vampires were invited to live alongside them.
Dean Faris meets Kidan to inform her that Aunt Silia passed away. She explains that she is responsible for enforcing peace between humans and dranaics (vampires). She informs her that her parents left House Adane to Susenyos Sagad, if June and Kidan did not claim it. After meeting the dean, someone leaves a bound book that belonged to Aunt Silia, which contains information on the other houses. A pill with fake poison is enclosed in the book that will change her scent to make the vampire believe she is dying. This would help her run away, if needed.
No unauthorized person can enter or even find Uxlay. As a founding family, House Adane can set its own rules. To own the house, Kidan had to pass Dranacti, the official philosophy taught at Uxlay.
During the last five years, Susenyos had killed all of House Adan’s dranaics. He was known as Savage Susenyos. Kidan is repulsed by him and his nature to kill. When she moves into House Adane, they play pranks, trying to drive each other away. Dean Faris warns them that Susenyos cannot harm Kidan, and Kidan is forbidden from making false accusations against him. She finds June’s bracelet in one of the rooms, but Susenyos doesn’t confess. He tells her he handed it over to Dean Faris because someone is trying to frame him.
Every night, she hears Susenyos’s howls of pain from the observatory room. He warns her not to come near him because it’s unsafe. Etete, the house help, always runs to his aid. Kidan learns from her that every house reflects the person, but one room holds all the pain. To learn the house law, she had to master the house. Kidan finds herself battling June and all her nightmares in the hallways. She doesn’t give up. It finally shows—if Susenyosendangers Adane House, the house shall, in turn, steal something of equal value from him. Kidan believes he had threatened the house by taking June and was now trying to right his wrong by changing the house law. Having learned the law, she approaches Susenyos with a tape recording from when she tortured Mama Anoet and she gave up his name. Susenyos is unfazed.
To pass Dranacti, Kidan forms a group with Slen, Yusef, Ramyn, and GK. Each comes from a different house, except GK, who is a Mot Zebeya, known as the Guards of Death. GK is concerned for Kidan and tells her that he senses death is coming for her. Kidan spots Ramyn going into a forbidden building for actis with Susenyos.
During a study session at Slen’s house, Kidan catches Koril Qaros, Slen’s father, yelling at Slen’s brother and Ramyn. Ramyn confesses that she is dying, and Susenyos is helping her get a life exchange. Life exchanges mean a vampire gives up their immortality, turning an acti into a vampire. The process and transformation were overseen by the Mot Zebeya. Ramyn tells her that she has heard June’s name during these meetups. Curious, Kidan sneaks into one of these gatherings. But Susenyos catches her. He makes her watch as he drinks the blood from a willing acti. Kidan is equally repulsed and drawn to him.
During one of the study sessions, Kidan watches as Ramyn is thrown from the opposite building. GK rushes to help her, but doesn’t reach in time. When the body is taken away, Kidan notices bite marks and blood on her lips – the work of a vampire. Her sudden death unites the other houses, skeptical about the protection Uxlay claims it offers. Kidan suspects Susenyos and steals his flask of blood, which she hands over to the chief of police to be investigated.
At the funeral, Tamol Ajtaf, Ramyn’s eldest sibling, asks Kidan to hand over the Axum Archeological Project to his house. She is suspicious of his motives. He gives her a business card with The 13th written on it. She recalls that Dean Faris told her about the clubs on campus.
Tired of not being able to find June, Kidan takes the fake poison pill. She tells Susenyos to help her get a life exchange, or she will tell Dean Farris that he poisoned her. Susenyos agrees. He takes her to the next meet-up up where someone hands her a card to meet The 13th. She is surprised to find Koril Qaros there. He promises a life exchange if she works with her classmate, Rufael Mackary, to fail Yusef in Dranacti. Kidan agrees, but silently vows to keep Yusef safe.
When Koril Qaros is arrested for Ramyn’s murder, she is surprised because he was a trusted 13th member. Susenyos learns that Kidan lied about being poisoned and is furious at being betrayed. She escapes, straight to meet Yuesf’s father, Omar Umil, who is imprisoned for killing dranaics. He tells her that the 13th wants all houses to set their own rules to better protect themselves and their houses than Uxlay can—a rule reserved for founding houses only. They were appealing to dranaics and actis. Four out of twelve houses that chose to join Uxlay had also joined the 13th. But sixty-seven houses existed outside the gates. He suspects that they could’ve taken June because they needed an heiress who would support their agenda. Susenyos did not, and that’s why they hated him. Ramyn’s death pushed more houses to join the 13th because they thought they needed more protection. She realizes that Slen is the one behind Ramyn’s death and the getting rid of her abusive father. She confronts Slen, who admits that her dranaic helped her. She also informs her that the 13th plan on framing Susenyos as the vampire who helped Koril kill Ramyn. Kidan rushes home, but before she can warn him, guards take him to the Mot Zebeya court. Kidan testifies that Susenyos is innocent in her sister’s disappearance, saving him. They develop a companionship. She asks him to work together to master the house, end the 13th, and find her sister.
Rufeal Makary is picked as the Artist to Watch for the Youth Exhibition.
Yusef kills Rufeal Makary while he was working on his famous Woman in Blue painting with the hammer used to create it.
Cossia Day was an annual event where dranaics were free to act as they pleased and all actis left campus. Kidan accompanies Susenyos this year to interrogate Titus Levigne, the dranaic who helped Slen kill Ramyn. He challenges Susenyos to a fight, during which Susenyos overpowers him brutally. Kidan rushes forward to ask about her sister. Titus strangles her, shouting about gifting her to the Nefrasi. Susenyos kills him with a metal screw dislodged from his mouth. After, Kidan is attacked by dranaics, but Susenyos rescues her. She pulls him into a lounge and they spend a heated moment together, him drinking from her and kissing her everywhere, but her lips.
Kidan decides to make Tamol Ajtaf talk. She lies about leaving Uxlay to get him in a car with her. She asks him about the Nefrasi. Scared, he confesses that it’s a group outside Uxlay who funds their initiatives, but he knows nothing about June. Angered, Kidan crashes the car.
Susenyos helps revive her with his blood, but Ajtaf is in an induced coma. GK drops out of the course, overwhelmed by everything that goes against what he is taught in the monastery. Kidan and Slen confess their crimes to Yusef, to show him they are the same and killing people who hurt them to protect something is not wrong.
During the Youth Exhibition, Yusef unveils his hidden piece, which turns out to be replaced by the Woman in Blue, splattered with blood. Slen and Yusef accuse Kidan of trying to sabotage them. Kidan doesn’t explain why she kept Ramyn’s scarf from the day she died, and the painting. When she catches up with GK and they take a walk, she finds Ramyn’s scarf in his bag. She locks him up and runs away. She tells Slen to watch him while she searches his room.
There, she finds his journal and a book on myths. In that book, she reads a chapter on the Nefrasi—a 19th-century term popularized by the villagers of Gojam. He was a cursed king with bloodlust. She realizes it is Susenyos Sagad. Kidan uses Omar Umil’s gun with impala bullets to confront Susenyos. He tells her that his court, whom he forced to turn into vampires during his reign as emperor, were the Nefrasi. If they had June, he was trying his best to keep Kidan safe by not telling her where they were. He stayed in Uxlay to protect himself. They were after him because he sought the three artifacts that bound vampires. Adane House was the sun, and that’s why Susenyos fought for inheritance. The Nefrasi already acquired the Water artifact. Due to the bullet wound, he falls into a deep sleep. Iniko and Taj, his friends and subjects, arrive to take care of him.
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Slen calls Kidan and tells her that GK confessed to blackmailing them to tell the truth. When she returns to GK, she finds him dead. Angered, she tells them they’re going to turn him into a vampire – one thing he never wanted to be.
Kidan tells Susenyos of her plan to use a Nefrasi’s blood to turn GK. As per Uxlay laws, no student or dranaic is allowed to associate with strays. Dean Faris always knew what was happening on the grounds, so they had to be careful. Susenyos cannot leave the house, so he sends Taj and Iniko with Kidan, Yusef and Slen to a common meeting place.
Taj and Iniko capture a Nefrasi. Before they can kill him, his people arrive. They are overpowered. The leader introduces himself as Samson Sagad. Sagad means bow. He is not related to Susenyos, but Kidan realizes he must be the childhood friend he had told her about. Samson threatens to kill Kidan, but Susenyos refuses to rescue her. He talks to her using the Mad Lovers story to give her an idea. She promises that they will accept the Nefrasi as a companion at the end of the semester, allowing him to enter Uxlay. He agrees but keeps GK as collateral. He also refuses to release June.
When Kidan returns, Susenyos tells her that June sent a video message. In the video, June tells Kidan that she had planned to run away. Mama Anoet knew the Nefrasi were coming for Kidan because they wanted the firstborn. So she found them first. She wanted to run away and hoped Kidan thought she had died. While she was away, she trained and studied with the Nefrasi who treated her like family. Then Aunt Silia died, and Kidan entered Uxlay before her. They knew she was upset with Susenyos. So Samson made a plan to get rid of him using this hatred and Ramyn’s death. She is disappointed that Kidan saved him. Kidan is heartbroken that her sister ran away willingly all this time. Susenyos tells Kidan that they will need to kill Samson.
Professor Andreyas asks them the answer to his final test to pass Dranacti. When their first attempt is incorrect, Kidan tries again. He accepts the answer, explaining that only after humans kill of their own free will and volition, their blood becomes drinkable. That explained why Susenyos was able to drink from her, and nobody had drunk from June.
During the final ceremony, Slen, Kidan, and Yusef make a show of welcoming back Nefrasi’s based on what was taught to them, to avoid being expelled. Kidan accepts Susenyos and Samson as her companions. When they drink from her, she glimpses them at sixteen or seventeen. Susenyos playfully taunts Samson to stop looking at his betrothed.
Samson doesn’t move in immediately, which worries Kidan. She discovers that Susenyos is human in all rooms now because he endangered the house by giving her the clue when Samson was torturing her. Samson arrives at the house with June.
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