The vampires came. They tore our house apart. Papa tried to fight them but they just killed him. Mama pushed me out the back door telling me to find Ella and take her to hide in our favourite place. I could hear mama's screams as I searched for Ella. I found her hiding in the stables, but so did the vampires. They grabbed us both and I kicked and screamed and tried to fight them. I could hear Ella sobbing and crying for mama. I was screaming for them to let her alone. I didn't care what they did to me but they weren't to harm Ella. I was responsible. I was RESPONSIBLE. They laughed at us. They laughed as they killed my baby sister. They laughed as they drained me and then as they poured their blood into my paralyzed mouth. They laughed as I fought them, trying to get to my sister, my baby sister. I just managed to grab her bloodstained toy rabbit before they locked me in a coffin for the day. Tonight they're going to let me out, they said, if I stop screaming all the time and behave. But I'll be ready for them. Papa always told me to keep a knife with me. My knife is now ready and I am waiting for them to let me out. I tell them I'll behave, I'll be good if they let me bury my family. I can hear their laughter. They'll be laughing on the other side of their faces soon ... soon."
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I killed them. I killed the monsters who slayed my family. I went out in to the night to try and find my family and put them to rest but the forest wasn't the wilderness I knew. A poacher was walking through the wood just where I was. I could smell the salt of his skin, hear his heartbeat. The hunger took over and I fed on him before he had a chance to see me. It was the first time I drank another's life and have now done so every night for centuries. I traveled the world searching for my home, meeting beings of all kinds everywhere. Any vampire I met I either did not allow my presence to be known or I killed them. I met Angua, who hated me at first because she was a werewolf and I was a vampire, but she came to like me after a time. I met many interesting mortals too, letting them think I was nothing more than a precocious child. One night, I found my home, the elder tree and the root cellar were all that remained of my family's home. I spent an entire night in the ruins of our old root cellar before going to find a more secure place to spend the day. That wasn't long before I met Lue and the others at Two Doors Down and at the Manor. It was good to have people to talk to on nights when I couldn't face investigating my past.
Elfgiva · Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 12:48pm · 0 Comments |