Prologue:
Vampires…a cold dreadful feeling washes through all that dare think of such a word and the meaning behind it…the feelings it causes one to feel…so haunted and eerie and dead…tossed eternally…one’s emotions whirl through black nothingness as hate and malice and fear fills their souls…they’re afraid. They…them…humans…they’re afraid of us. Us, the wandering ones, they fear…our fangs…our deadly eyes colder than ice…colder than the last breath a near corpse were to breath…colder than the glaciers of a wicked beast’s desires…our souls…black and empty and faded…tossed down, torn away…from humanity and sanity in general…we are shunned…we are hated…we are cursed…us…the vampires…the dead ones…the ones that lust for blood and desire nothing more…we who can feel no more pain…no more sorrow…no more joy or love…or hate…we who can only feel apathy…nothing…we are the ones that they hate! We, who can do nothing…we who can do absolutely nothing, but feed…us, the ones they call animals and beasts…we…who are nothing…dead. Our lips no more…than the whispers of pasts long forgotten…and our memories nothing more than fading photographs of black and white…our souls have caught aflame and burn in eternal hell! Nothing…absolute nothing can change how we feel…lost…empty…destroyed…falling faster…towards nothing!
And we’re the ones that are cursed? We are the ones that they hate? We are the punished ones? What did we do wrong? We never chose this fate…we never begged on our hands and knees…nor crawled there, wallowing in pleas to become this! We…us…we did nothing…we begged nothing…we lay there helpless and were permitted to lose ourselves to them!
Yes…there are two “them” and “they” and they are different from one another…they are far different…one…our curse…another…our worse curse…neither are a welcoming omen…nor a promise that we wish was kept…a curse and a worse curse…combined to make our lives miserable…and you blame us! They…you…yes…you…the humans…because of you we are blamed!
Curse us…curse us for existing…but, in the meantime, while all hell breaks lose in the night of a million cold fires, we will suck your blood and satisfy the animal they permitted to exist! Yes, we will harm you…wound you until you cannot speak…but…we will not kill you…for such is too kind a punishment for the hell you’ve put us through…us…the vampires of the night…