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But for vampires, there is not even a corpse to mourn over. It is a vivid representation of the permanence of death: one minute they are there, the next … Or to put it another way, there is grief, and then there is the grief of ash.
You shouldn’t be here. It’s like putting lightning in a cage.”
The lies are my duty, and I give him the full force of them.
“Do you really think things can get better?” I ask my new employer. “Well, darling,” she replies, “I don’t need to tell you this, but they can hardly get worse, can they?”
“You speak of rights?” I continue. “You speak of dignity? I can’t touch these things. I can’t feel them on my face.
An entire religion founded on neither morality, nor mystique, but a never-ending supply of blood.
It is important to maintain eye contact with such people, but with this one you risk falling into those eyes of his, eyes that have nothing within them, nothing at all.
Rage on behalf of the authors whose thoughts were deemed too poisonous to be given air. Rage at the idea of topics deemed secret by a ruling class. Rage for the opportunities lost to scholars. Secret knowledge; the paradox of a fallen society.
“I always offer last words,” I point out. “But I am in need of words that begin something,”
So though part of me fears what could come of knowing you, there is another part of me that is cheering you on and welcoming the chaos you might bring.
