An Evening with Kale William Grey
My Evening with Kale William Grey
Kale was contacted by Lydia Deana Schoffi, editor in chief of Vamps Weekly and was asked to sit down with Cate Duric, one of Vamps Weekly's top journalist.
This interview will be featured in Vamps Daily.
Where we only deal under the dark and sexy veil of night.
Cate Duric: First, let me say thank you for joining us tonight Kale. I understand that you and Jace are busy in search for Ella, so I won’t take up too much of your time.
Kale: You are most welcome, Cate.
CD: Let’s get started. Tell us a bit about yourself.
Kale: Hmm… Ask and I will tell you whatever you want to know.
*Kale’s voice sounds sinfully delicious*
CD: Okay, I was told that your father was a farmer; will you tell us a bit about your life as a farmer’s son in France in the 1800’s?
Kale: It was your typical farmer’s life. Up at four am to milk the cows, clean the stalls and check on the animals. It was a boring life you could say. We had a very small farm, enough to feed the family and a few others. Nothing too exciting.
CD: Well, what is one exciting event in your life that you would like to share with us other than meeting Ella?
Kale: Other than meeting Ella I would have to say meeting French engineer Gustave Eiffel, the man behind the Eiffel tower two years before the tower was shipped to the USA.
CD: Wow that sounds exciting.
Kale: It was.
CD: Kale, if I may ask why are you named after a leaf?
Kale: That is a question many have asked. My full name is William Kale Grey. My father named me William, and at the request of my mother he added Kale, because it is a bitter sweet tasting cabbage that my mother had once tasted and fell in love with it. My birth to her was a bitter sweet moment in her life, as her father had passed earlier that night and then I was born.
CD: I’m so sorry to hear that Kale.
Kale: Don’t be Cate, death is a gift given to some after living a long and fulfilling life. He passed peacefully in the night and then I was born as few hours later.
CD: Kale, how do you feel about your immorality? The fact that you will never die while others around you will.
*Kale shifted in his seat and lowered his head a bit. I saw the sadness in his eyes.*
Kale: This is a difficult question. My immortality is not what most troubles me. What troubles me is the fact that in order to live forever, I must take my Master’s blood. Living forever is a prison sentence that I gladly accept— a punishment for not being able to save Hélène.
CD: Kale, I don’t understand that. You have to take your Master’s blood, why?
Kale: Cate, I am Chorý. I am a half-breed. I am infected.
*Kale looked at me as if his answer should have been enough*
CD: Ok—ay, explain further, please.
Kale: Chorý is want every vampire once was. The word Chorý means infected, sick or diseased. Once bitten a man is changed. As soon as the toxin hits the blood stream the change begins. Though death is not instant, the infected falls into a vampiric coma where his breathing shallows and his heart slows. This process is very quick leaving the infected unconscious for no longer than ten minutes. In that time it is best to kill the infected because the life the infected will be sentenced to is a life that will be pure hell. If you allow the infected to awake from the coma he will no longer need food or water to survive, solely blood.
CD: Human blood only?
*Kale smiled. Fear is not something I have ever felt during one of my interviews, I felt it then*
*Kale’s smile is beautiful with a hint of danger*
Kale: Yes, human blood; though I can survive for a time on animal blood, I cannot survive on it forever.
CD: Right then, you said that you needed the blood of your master. How does that play in with being a Chorý?
Kale: A Chorý as I said it not a full vampire—a half breed. There is not one Chorý that wants to succumb to La Luxure.
CD: La Luxure?
Kale: Yes, La Luxure du Sang or in English Blood Lust. It is when a Chorý can no longer control his lust for blood and he changes overtime into a ravenous creature of the night.
CD: Are you saying that all Chorý walk around lusting after the necks of the innocent?
*Kale snickers*
Kale: No, I don’t mean it that way. You see a cupcake a bakery and you know that it will taste delicious, but you don’t just eat it do you?
CD: Well, no.
Kale: Well, neither do I jump on a human and suck his or her blood. There is a cure for La Luxure. All it takes is a drop of blood from the Chorý’s sire and La Luxure can be held at bay.
CD: For how long?
Kale: There is no definite—
CD: So not forever?
Kale: No. I don’t believe so.
*I decided to change the subject. The interview had changed to a grim grilling of this Chorý and that was not my goal.*
CD: Kale, do you believe in love at first sight?
Kale: No, it is a delusion and anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool.
CD: Okay, well that was an unexpected answer.
Kale: Why?
CD: Well, you and Ella fell in love fairly fast. What did you feel when you first saw her.
Kale: Anger.
CD: Anger?
Kale: Yes, anger. It was one in the morning, freezing outside and she was there in the snow with a red nose and no hat or gloves, I was angry.
CD: *giggles* Okay, but back to love at first sight?
Kale: Love: An intense feeling of deep affection; Love at first sight: Lust.
CD: I see your point.
Kale: I have loved Ella throughout time. I followed her soul and when I get her from Laurent I will tell her how I feel. I will protect her until the day she dies.
CD: How do you feel about that? Ella’s mortality?
Kale: I love her too much to want anything other than the normal life she has fought so hard for. A normal life includes death.
CD: Sounds beautifully tragic. Still, you couldn't you just change her?
Kale: I could but I won’t. That would go against the normal life I know she wants.
CD: True. I haven’t asked many questions, but I feel that our readers and I have a better understanding of you and your love for Ella. Is there anything you would like to say before you go? Anything you want to tell us about what you think the future holds for you and Ella?
Kale: Honestly Cate, read Awakened. I believe you will find out all you need to know about what the future holds for Ella and me. You will learn about the past and how it has help mold the present and the future.
CD: Kale I assure you I look forward to it. Thank you for taking the time out of your search to talk to us and hopefully I can have you here again, but next time with Ella.
Kale: I am sure that she would love that Cate.
