in a flash , the kind rumored to occur at the point of death , images flew through his mind , of meeting kerrick some twelve hundred years ago when kerrick was inducted into the warriors of the blood , of battling death vampires side by side with the brother , of a thousand conversations on every possible subject , of kerrick having his back at the blood and bite and the other way around , of having stood up for him at his marriage to helena , of having loved kerrick like a brother , of having trusted him implicitly .