Interviews: The Turning Series

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[image error]Q.  Apollo, I’m—I want to ask you a couple questions if you don’t mind.

A.  I don’t mind at all. Please, go ahead.

Q.  If you could share with the reader one thing about your life that wasn’t in your book, what would it be?

A.  Sometimes, I think I can remember being in my mother’s womb. The rhythm of her heartbeat was like a lullaby that comforted me while I slept. Her voice was the melody of an angel, and I remember a song she sang to me and Amaya while we were in her stomach. If I heard it today, I would recognize the song. It was a Spanish lullaby.

Q.  What was it like growing up here—here in the forest?

A.  Normal. We didn’t know anything different. Although I had always wished there were more kids like us that we could play with.

Q.  We read in the book that you were human until your eighteenth birthday.

A.  That’s correct.

Q.  Care to elaborate?

A.  No.

Q.  Where’s the blood bank?

A.  You passed it on your way to Max’s lair.

Q.  That, that’s where they took the guy that was with me!

A.  Why would you have come into a lair of vampires?

Q.  To have this moment right here with you. What’s it like Apollo?

A.  What?

Q.  Being a vampire.

A.  Like an abandoned house with dark secrets. My soul is dark and empty, and only a distant memory lingers of the person I once was. Your worst nightmare would become your best friend, if you knew the whole truth.

[image error]Q.  If you could share with the reader one thing about your life that wasn’t in your book, what would it be?

A.  When I was a kid, I always wondered why my father’s skin was colder than ours. I would often have nightmares about it.

Q.  What is a typical day for you?

A.  Do you mean a typical night?

Q.  Yes.

A.  Feed two times a night, hunt, and attend training classes on how to be an even better fighter. Even as a vampire, we understand it’s survival of the fittest.

Q.  Do you ever leave the forest?

A.  Of course, some of the vampires even have night jobs. They’ve been prepped to work with humans and make money. They are also the eyes and ears of our clan.

Q.  How many of you live here?

A.  No one gets a number. If numbers fall into human hands it will give them power over our kind.

Q.  What’s it like being a vampire?

A.  Strength, keen senses, speed, immortality wrapped up like a gift on Christmas morning. It’s who I am.

Q.  Do you love anyone?

A.  Love?  Good question. I’m interested in someone, but I’m not sure that I know if vampires love the way human’s love. Without a soul, we’re different.