BLOOD OMEN: Dea’s Mum

Today is #Mother’s Day in #Georgia so I thought I’d talk a little about Dea’s mum.

Mother and Daughter Walking On A Moonlit Night by abstract.desktopnexus

Dea’s mum, Lydia, was young when she had Dea (birth name Annabel). Dea’s father was killed when Dea was too small to remember, leaving Lydia to bring Dea up. But she was not alone in this task. She knew about the #vampires. She knew the Apophi were looking for Dea so she accepted the help of Elias’ #Coven to protect them. The Coven used their ability of mind control to smooth over any problems with school and council authorities and also paid for regular identity changes for mother and daughter. For her part, Lydia kept moving from town-to-village-to town, around the country, always changing her and Dea’s appearances.

Mother and daughter were very close. Lydia made the changes fun for Dea, explaining it as a gypsy lifestyle. Dea never knew of her own connection to the vampire world, though she knew vampires existed. Lydia never mentioned vampires and made a point of making Dea’s life as ‘normal’ as possible, helping her daughter to study well and enjoy life.

Lydia worked as an artist. She sold her works and illustrated children’s books and magazine articles. She had a great sense of humour.

When Dea was around 14, Lydia started getting pain in her back and hips. She also needed more rest during the day, sleeping for long hours while Dea was at school. As she worked from home, she took painkillers and kept painting and drawing. She told no-one of her growing pain.

When Dea was 16, Dea persuaded Lydia to see a doctor. She was diagnosed as having #myeloma and put on steroids prior to chemotherapy treatment.

She had one positive cycle around the time Dea turned 17. They’d just moved to a new town and Lydia took Dea and her new college friend, Ana, up to London for the day. They toured the #LondonDungeons and #LondonTombs and then went out for pizza. It was a perfect afternoon.

The next day Lydia relapsed.

She was taken to hospital with an infection.

She was put on more medication and given another course of chemotherapy. She lost her hair and strength.

Elias and David visited her in hospital every week. She knew they were keeping Dea safe from the Apophi.

She died at the age of 35 in hospital.

The night she died, Dea had a dream that she saw her mum killed by a vampire. It is true that vampires, particularly Ko-eks, visit hospitals and drink from those soon to die but it is unlikely that Dea’s dream vampire was the one to kill her. Her cause of death was officially connected to myeloma.