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The Song of the Vampiress

a featured Prose guest submission by [Chrysilla]




I stand up, licking my lips. I`ve just drunk the blood of my last lover. I still see the way you looked at me, with amazeness, horror and a plea for mercy in your beautiful eyes. I`m sorry darling, I was thirsty. Never trust a woman, didn`t anyone told you that?
There`s a beautiful moon tonight. Pity you`re not here anymore to admire it by my side. Well, that was your destiny, I guess. I look at your body laying on the floor. You barely breathe. If I had drunk the last drop your blood, I would`ve died too. And now I can`t do much to help you, I`m not a murderer, you know. If someone finds you in time, you might live. I hope that. Even if I did that to you, I loved you. But you`re just a mortal. We are not supposed to love someone of your kind. The others warned me already, and if I hadn`t done it, they would surely have. I`m so sorry...
I`d better leave you now. If someone gets here, it would be better for me not to be seen. I am really very sorry. We could continue our love beyond death. But I forgot to ask you if you wanted to be a vampire, and I can`t make you one without asking you before.
I must go now. I`m sorry, my love...
This is the story of a vampiress. Yes, my story actually.
How could anyone understand the way we feel? We are able to love, but never happened to fall for one of our kind. No mortal could ever know how it feels to be forced to kill the one you love. Forced by the others, or by your own needs. How can someone even try to imagine how it`s like to feel you`d put the world at the feet of the one you love, and then start seeing red in front of your eyes and the torturing need for blood? Fight against yourself, with a part of you yelling to run away and the other part holding you there, facing the unbearable attraction of the good warm human flesh? Sometimes you can`t resist and you dig your teeth deep into it, ripping your heart at the same time. Other times you just run away, leaving your love confused, and never see him again. I hate myself. I hate the one that made me like this. I hate what I`m doing, I HATE EVERYTHING!
Wow, would you look at me. Pretty pathethic, huh? Well, it happens to every vampire. You can`t totally ignore your human part all the time. I try to control myself though. Poor you... You`ll be dead soon, my beloved dinner. Even embraced by death, you`re still beautiful. But unfortunately for you, your neck was so tasty that I couldn`t stop myself. Did you say something, love? I think not... You barely have the power to breath. What a beautiful moon tonight... Yes, I know I already said that. Well I`ll take a long walk by myself, and maybe chase my dessert too. Good bye, love.
I wonder how could I do this to you... Please don`t die... Don`t leave me here alone... I am guilty, I know, but you own my dark heart... Why did you have to be so beautiful? Why didn`t you resist my attraction? I should have told you the truth, but I didn`t want you to run away from me... It would have been better though... I don`t want you to die, please don`t! I bite my lip and I kiss you. Now the live-giving blood will get into your veins. There`s no way back. I turn my eyes away so that I don`t see your body diing. Soon you`ll be by my side, admiring the moon, my love, my king, my everything.
There you are. Feeling better now? I know you`re confused. You`re a vampire now. Come here, take your first step into the darkness. You`re even more beautiful. We`re going to hunt something for your first dinner. Yes, I love you too.
I know it`s a curse to be a vampire and I know everybody hates us. But who cares? I`m immortal.




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