Bloodborne: the Cursed

"Curse the fiends, their children too. And their children, forever, true." A voice echoes in Sunset's head. What happened?

"Hi," Sunset feels someone shakes her body: "wake up. Hi." It's a woman's voice, but who?

"Why does bandage cover your eyes? I don't recall you being blind." The woman tries to tear off the bandage around Sunset's eyes.

"Bandage?" Sunset grabs the woman's wrist: "no way, I can see everything perfectly."

"Ok..." the woman, wearing a bird mask, sounds confused: "I am not worried about you, but you've been sleeping for a long time."

"I..." Sunset feels it; something is wrapped around her eyes. As she tries to remove it, the voice echoes again: "Curse the fiends, their children too. And their children, forever, true."

"Who are the fiends?" the woman with a bird mask, named Eileen, is even more confused: "Where do you get those garments? I thought only the old hunter wear those. By the way, the sword on your back is wrapped in a bandage as well. So you might want to take it off."

"Oh! Pardon me! I don't remember anything!" Sunset closes her eyes but still sees everything perfectly.

"Ok, what's in my hand?" Eileen holds a cup of a pebble in her hand.

"A pebble?"

"Yes! Now answer me, where do you even get those garments? And how can you see with your eyes covered like that?' Eileen asks.

"I don't know...The last thing I remember is a dark graveyard, and. That's it. I don't even know what place this is..." Sunset looks up to the sky and holds her sword upwards as it shines brilliantly like the moon itself.

"Listen, why don't you take a break and sort things out?" Eileen says as Sunset stares at the glowing sword.

"Indeed..." Sunset mumbles: "My guiding moonlight..."

"Good hunter, have I somehow changed?" The doll asks as Sunset returns to the dream: "Moments ago, from someplace, perhaps deep within, I sensed a liberation from heavy shackles. Not that I would know. How passing strange..."

"Maria..." a name slipped Sunset's lips: "You are...Maria...the clock tower...fishing hamlet..."

"Beg your pardon?" The doll asks: "Who is Maria?"

"This blade, do you recognize it?" Sunset hands the doll a beautifully decorated sword with a dagger attached at the end of its handle.

"Good hunter, are you all right?" The doll is now concerned: "I am not a hunter..."

"I sorry, " Sunset answers: "A massive chunk of my memory is missing now, and your face rings a bell. I don't know who Maria is, or any clock tower or fishing hamlet. Those words just slid my mouth! The last thing I remember is a dark graveyard, but then I was woken up outside of a place called Oedon chapel. It was supposed to be dusk out, but all of a sudden, it's dark! I just feel like some mysterious hand snatch me away from where I was and throw me to a random place! Sorry, I am a bit out of it. Do you know where Gehrman is? I want to talk to him. "

"Oh, I can hear Gehrman sleeping. On any other night, he'd be restless. But on this night, he sounds so very calm. Perhaps something has eased his suffering" The doll answers with delight.

"Thank you," Sunset says before dashing off.

"Oh, Laurence..."

Sunset stops as she hears Gehrman. An image, image of a flaming beast lying on a large seat, shows in her mind.

"What's taking you so long..." The image changes, from a sitting beast to a beast crowing on the ground while lava spills out of its body.

"I've grown too old for this..." As Gehrman keeps mumbling, more images show up in Sunset's mind. Images about a forest, a building, two men are talking with each other... So much that she was brought to her knees.

"Fear the old blood." those words, words that are so alien yet so familiar, slipped her mouth again.