The Melume was a legendary event in the House of Shadow, much like the Kejari was in the House of Night—though far less bloody. The House of Shadow was the oldest of the vampire kingdoms, having been constructed from the remnants of Alarus’s territory. This, many believed, gave the House of Shadow a unique link to the past. On the Night of the Melume, the boundary between the past and the present thinned. It created a natural phenomenon that even great poets struggled to describe, in which the ghosts of the past walked among the living.
