The bacillus that induced photophobic haemophagy – the vampir strain – was capricious, and weak, carried solely in spit and quick to denature and collapse. Only if a vampir’s victim did not die, and if the bite had been direct, mouth to skin so that some of the ab-dead’s spittle entered what was left of their prey’s blood, was there a small chance that the survivor might be infected. And if they survived the fevers and the delirium, they would awaken one night, having died and been renewed, ab-dead, with a raging hunger. Their bodies reconfigured, stronger and quicker by many times. Unageing,
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