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The first is that they subsist on human blood for sustenance and for their dark magics.
The final truth is that the vampires share one mind. The beasts that torment us month to month are little more than living golems that heed their lord’s will.
Fear marries desperation to breed poor decisions, Mother always says. We must protect the silver, for it is our only defense against the vampires. A defense that grows more finite by the day.
“What are you?” he rasps.
What am I? A strange question coming from a beast like him. I smile wildly. “I am your death.”
“What am I going to do with you?” “Love me forever?” My mouth moves on its own. “Careful, or I just might.”
“My power is intoxicating, isn’t it?” he whispers. “Do you want more? Break the curse on my people, dear hunter, and I can keep you drunk on my power until your body can no longer handle me.”
“How do we free ourselves from this torment?” “I don’t know if I want to be free.” His gaze drops farther, to my neck. “You might be torture and temptation incarnate. But you are strength and power. You are damnation and salvation trapped in curves that should be forbidden.”
“And I feel for you.” He pulls me a bit closer, his hands still around mine. “I ache for you. I burn for you. I want you.”
“If you’re going to keep staring like that, I’m going to expect a portrait.”
