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FACE IMPASSIVE SHE WATCHED, EYES TWIN FLAMES OF GREEN FIRE, SET IN A PORCILEAN MASK, LONG LASHES LOWERED TO HOODS. EYES GLOWING WITH AN INTENSITY THAT WOULD SCARE EVEN THE BOLDEST MAN. NOW THOUGH SHE SEEMED AMUSED, SHE STOOD WITH ARMS AT HER SIDES, BODY RELAXED. SHE SMILED, REVEALING THE SHARP POINTS OF FANGS. HUMMING AN OLD FOLK SONG FROM HER CHILDHOOD SHE WATCHED, AS THE CHILDREN PLAYED. THIER MOTHER WATCHING THEM PLAY, CHASING AFTER EACHOTHER WITH CHILDISH ABANDOM, LAUGHING OUT LOUD. SHE STOOD BACK IN SHADOW, COMPLETELY STILL, SO STILL, THAT ONLY ANOTHER VAMPIRE WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THE TINIEST MOVEMENT. SHE DIDN,T WANT TO BE SEEN, JUST TO DRINK IN THIS SIMPLE SCENE, TO FEEL EMOTION, EMOTION THAT WAS UN STAINED FROM MORTAL BLOOD, MORTAL DEATH. SHE REALIZED THAT SHE WAS CRYING, BLOOD TEARS STREAKING HER PALE CHEEKS. BUT IT WAS NOT ONLY SADNESS THAT SHE FELT, BUT A TAINTED JOY. TAINTED BY THE KNOWLEDGE THAT SHE HAD GIVEN UP THE CHANCE OF MOTHERHOOD, SO LONG AGO. AND WATCHING THIS SCENE BEFORE HER WAS ONLY A BITTERSWEET REMINDER OF ALL SHE HAD LOST.EVEN AS SHE WAS THINKING THIS, FEELING THE RAWNESS, ANOTHER FEELING WAS CREEPING OVER HER, LIKE SPIDER LEGS TICKLING, THE SMALL HAIRS ALL OVER HER BODY RAISING, SHE NEW THIS SENSATION ALL TO WELL. NEW IT,S MEANING. SCANNING WITH HER MIND, SHE PICKED UP IT,S THOUGHTS, A VAMPIRE CLOSE BY. FAR TO CLOSE, HOW HAD SHE NOT SENSED IT SOONER. LOOKING UP AT THE PLAYING CHILDREN SHE HAD HER ANSWER. SHE,D LET HER FEELINGS SHOW, LEFT HERSELF VUNERABLE AS SHE MUSED HER LOSS, FELT. IN THAT INSTANT HER MENTAL BARRIERS MUST HAVE SLIPPED. LETTING THE OTHER SENSE HER THOUGHTS, TRACK HER MOVEMENT. CURSING HERSELF SHE MOVED WITH A SWIFTNESS NO MORTAL COULD SEE, PUTTING HERSELF BETWEEN THE MOTHER AND CHILDREN, AND THIS NEW THREAT. IT ONLY TOOK AN INSTANT FOR HER TO PASS THEM, TO LEAVE THEM SAFELY BEHIND AS SHE BEGAN TO TRACK THE NEW BLOOD. SHE FOUND HERSELF AT THE FAR END OF AN ALLEY. IT WAS PITCH BLACK, BUT NO PROBLEM FOR HER. A TALL WALL RAN THE ENTIRE LENGHT OF THE ALLEY. EASILY, SHE LEAPED ATOP THIS AND CROUCHED, SHE SENSED EYES ON HER SO SHE SCANNED THE ALLEY. THERE JUST A CAT, EYES GLOWING GREEN LIKE HER OWN. SHE WAITED FOR HER PREY TO COME CLOSER. FELT HIS MOVEMENTS COMING THIS WAY. IT STOPPED SUDDENLY HEAD WHIPPING AROUND, EYES SCANNING, IT NEW INSTINCTIVLY THAT IT WAS NOT ALONE. SENSED A POWERFUL PRESENSE, IT COULDN,T TELL WHAT IT WAS, BUT IT,S BODY WAS COMPELLING IT TO FLEE. WITH A SNARL IT SHUCK OF THIS FEELING. IT COULD DEFEAT ANYTHING THAT SHOWED UP, IT HAD BEEN IN OTHER CITIES WERE IT HAD KILLED OTHER VAMPIRES THAT HAD TRIED TO RUN IT OF, IT WASN,T GOING TO SWEAT ANOTHER OF ITS KIND, IF THAT,S WHAT IT SENSED AHEAD IN THE DARKENED ALLEY. IT STARTED FORWARD. COME LITTLE ONE, COME FORWARD TO YOUR DOOM. SHE SENSED THE COCKYNESS OF THIS NEW ONE, FOR NEW IT WAS, SCARCELY A DECADE OLD AS A VAMPIRE, YET BELIEVEING IT COULD DEFEAT IT,S ELDERS, IT,S BETTERS, SHE WAS GOING TO ENJOY THIS. HE TENSED AS AN ALLMOST OVERPOWERING URGE TO FLEE TOOK OVER HIM AGAIN. HE SAW MOVEMENT TO HIS LEFT, SOMETHING RUNNING ATOP A WALL ABOVE HIS HEAD. TO FAST FOR A MORTAL, A SHAPE APPEARED ABOVE HIM LEAPED AND INSTANTLY LANDED IN FRONT OF HIM. A WOMAN, TALL SLIM, DARK HAIRED FLASHING GREEN EYES, SHE ADVANCED ON HIM SLOWLY, GRACEFULLY HIPS SWAYING, A SMILE ON HER FACE. BUT HE SENSED DANGER AND STARTED TO BACK UP. HE TRIED TO COVER THIS BY DEMANDING, WHY ARE YOU, WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME. WHO I AM IS OF KNOW INTEREST TO YOU SHE WHISPERED. WHAT I,M GOING TO DO TO ONE SUCH AS YOU, WHO COMES TO MY CITY, KILLS IN MY CITY, IS WHAT SHOULD WORRY YOU, SHE SAID, STILL ADVANCING ON HIM. HIS BACK HIT THE WALL AND HE JUMPED. TRIED TO BACK OFF IT. BUT SHE WAS TO QUICK, SHOOTING OUT HER RIGHT ARM SHE GRABBED HIM BY THE THROAT AND PINNED HIM TO THE WALL. HE SNARLED AND KICKED OUT AT HER. LAUGHING SHE QUICKLY, EASELY EVADED HIS KICKS. AND LETTING GO FOR JUST AN INSTANT SHE FIERCELY SLAPPED HIM ACROSS THE FACE. SENDING HIS HEAD CRACKING BACK AGAINST THE WALL WITH A WET SOUND. HE SLID DOWN THE WALL TO HIS HUNCHES, HEAD SWIMMING. SHE INSTANTLY GRABBED HIM BY THE THROAT ONCE MORE AND HOISTED HIM UP WITH EASE, THOUGH HE WAS SOME 5 INCHES TALLER THAN HER, AND OUT WIEGHED HER CONSIDERABLY. YOU SHOULDN,T HAVE COME INTO MY CITY, YOU SHOUNDN,T HAVE TRIED TO TRACK ME SHE SNARLED, FACE CONTORTED EYES BLAZING. WH WHAT, TRACKING YOU... I, I DIDN,T KNOW YOU WERE IN THIS CITY, I DON,T KNOW WHO YOU ARE HE STAMMERED STILL TRYING TO FREE HIMSELF, DESPAIRATION CREEPING INTO HIS VOICE, HIS EYES WILDLY SCANNING FOR ANY CHANCES OF ESCAPE. SHE INSTANTLY ENTERED HIS FEABLE MIND, BUT INSTANTLY WITHDRAW IN TOTAL DIGUST. FOR WHAT SHE,D FELT, WHAT SH,D SENSED WAS A BASE, ANIMAL HUNGER, A HUNGER FOR THE BLLOD OF CHILDREN. SHE,D SEEN IN THAT INSTANT A DEPRAVITY OF HORRORS ACTED OUT ON MORTAL CHILDREN BY THIS CREATURE. AND SHE NEW IN THAT INSTANT THAT IT WASN,T SHE THAT THE FLEDGELING WAS TRACKING, BUT THOSE SAME INNOCENT CHILDREN THAT SHE,D BEEN WATCHING MOMENTS AGO. AND THIS SENT HER INTO A RAGE, SHE SCREAMED, YOU BASTARD, YOU FEED ON THE INNOCENTS, YOU TORTURE THEM, FEED OF THEIR TERROR, AS YOU FEED ON THEIR BLOOD, AS SHE WAS SAYING THIS SHE THROW HIM BACK AGAINST THE WALL AND INSTANTLY TORE OUT HIS THROAT WITH HER FANGS, BLOOD GIEZERED OUT OF THE GAPING WOUND, SPRAYING HER FACE HER CHEST. HE SCREAMED, FRANTICALLY TRYING TO FREE HIMSELF. SO, AS YOU FED ON THOSE INNOCENTS FEAR, I,LL FEED ON YOURS, NEVER WILL YOU KILL ANOTHER CHILD. BUT WHY HE TRIED TO SAY, THROUGH THE MANGLED REMAINS OF HIS THROAT, WHY, WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO KILL ME, THEIR JUST CATTLE, WHY DO YOU ATACHE FEELINGS TO THEM HE WHISPERED NEAR DEATH NOW. BECAUSE I VALUE MORTALS FOR FAR MORE THAN FOOD, I AM SO OLD THAT I NEEDN,T FEED FOR AGES, MAYBE DECADES, I DON,T KNOW. WHAT I DO KNOW IS I VALUE THEM MORE THAN I VALUE A CREATURE LIKE YOURSELF. DIE LITTLE ONE, SEE MY FACE AS THE VISION FADES, KNOW THAT I ENDED YOUR MISERABLE LIFE. SHE STARED DOWN AT HIM WITH COLD DETATCHED EYES, FACE SMOOTH NOW, AGELESS, GLEAMING WHITE, ONLY THE DRYING BLOOD, MARING THE PERFECT SKIN. HE WAS MOANING NOW, HIS HEAD LOLLING TO THE SIDE, EYES CLOSING, THE BLOOD MERELY SEEPING FROM THE WOUND NOW, THE WOUND TRYING TO HEAL BEFORE HER EYES. A DULL ANGER ROSE UP IN HER AS SHE REALISED THAT SHE WOULD HAVE TO DISPOSE OF HIS BODY IN THE LITTLE TIME LEFT TO HER BEFORE SUN UP. SHE LET GO OF HER GRIP ON HIM. HE SLOWLY SAGGED AGAINST THE WALL, SLID DOWN IT, BODY A MERE BAG OF BONES NOW, FACE STRIVELED IN ON ITSELF, BONES STRETCHING THE STUNKEN FLESH, LIPS DRAWN BACK FROM HIS TEETH, FANGS JUTTING OUT. NO BEAUTY LEFT IN THIS ONE NOW SHE MUTTERED MORE TO HERSELF THAN HIM. SIGHING, SHE GRABBED HIM UP EASILY AND THROUGH HIM OVER HER SHOULDER HE MOANED SOFTLY, SOON IT WILL ALL BE OVER LITTLE ONE SHE WHISPERED AS SHE SILENTLY DISAPPEARED INTO THE LIGHTENING NIGHT.

WE ALL CARRY WITHIN OURSELVES, DARK DESIRES, SCARY THOUGHTS, THEY HAUNT OUR KNIGHTMARES, THEY INVADE OUR DAYS. THEY FOLLOW US LIKE THE SHADOW OF DEATH, AND ONLY THE STRONG CAN CONTROL THESE URGES ,THESE THOUGHTS, DESIRES, WOULD HAVE US DO UNSPEAKABLE THINGS.