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Thoughts race behind my red eyelids as I listen to her twig scraping against the log. She doesn’tactlike a horrible dhampir devouring monster. In fact, my mate is rather joyful.
She coos as she interacts with the crawling creature that’s no bigger than her thumbnail. Perhaps she’ll swallow him too, and playing with food is just a game for her kind.
Or perhaps she’s as innocent as she seems, and eating the darkness was a one-off incident. Maybe she eats… slithering creatures, and simply got confused by the nature of the Novians’ pet.
Distant thoughts, a continuous plea for food, break through the silence of my mind. I inhale sharply, tasting the air for signs of my lost brothers’ location. The breeze contains the scent of wet earth and musky fauna, but layered within the natural environment are hints of blood.BloodbloodBLOOD.Images of red flash behind my eyelids, and this time they aren’t memories of my past. My fellow dhampir is completely consumed by the madness, without a shred of their former self inside their hollow shell.
And now they’re approaching my mate.
My joints lock as he runs closer to my pale beauty. It’s like I’ve lost all ability to move, to act.Will he hurt her? Can she defend herself from my kind?
Both instinct and logic battle as I stand there, sheltered behind a tree as my mate comes closer and closer to danger. My brain tells me that if she could conquer the Novian’s pet, then she should be fully capable of disabling a member of my species. My heart screams at me to put myself in front of her anyway, just in case.
But like a coward, I remain immobile and indecisive as my maddened comrade breaks through the clearing, red eyes focused on my glowing female.
My legs move on impulse, heart jumping to my throat as I speed through the trees toward them.
But then I still. Every hair on my body rises as I witness my mates true power.
Instead of jolting when the interloper approaches her, she rises to her feet like she was expecting him. When the muddy, crazed dhampir is only strides away, she flicks her wrist, lifting the male into the air with an invisible force.
He floats there, a newfound shock, and yet somehow a subtle peace, captured in his gaze. Seconds pass before my mate opens her mouth.
The sight I’m witnessing is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, even more alarming than when the Novian Queen cleansed me of my madness. Darkness leeches from the dhampir, draining out from his eyes, nose, mouth- every orifice of his body. The liquid oozes through the air, writhing like an eel until it reaches my mates. I can’t see her face from this angle, but her reflection is visible in the bloody eyes of my fallen brother.
She eats with neither pleasure nor fear on her expression.
This is simply dinner.
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Thea
Theonewhofollowsme is a strange specimen, indeed.
It’s been four human hours, and he’s remained in the shadows, never straying close enough for me to see or hear him.
But I can certainlyfeelhim.
And he feels rather odd. Not quite human, yet not dark. Whatever plagues the foreign, crazed species of invaders… Well, it doesn’t seem to affect him in the same way. And if there’s no imbalance in darkness, then there’s no need for me to consume him.
To be honest, it’s actually exciting to be near someone sane, even though there’s distance between us.
Will he approach me? I’ve felt no ill intent in his demeanor. The waves of energy radiating from his essence is a mixture of remorse and awe. Is he in awe ofme?
I can feel my cheeks heat, a sensation I’ve felt only a few times since arriving in the physical plane.
Once, I stubbed my toe on a root, and the pain flushed my face until I could feel the heat beneath my skin. Another time, I felt them warm when I realized my body included features normally reserved for reproductive uses. If I had those, then I could have…sexualrelations.
My heart flutters as I remember that enlightening moment.
I couldn’t help but explore my body, much as I can’t refrain from exploring beneath every stone in the forest. My flesh is sosquishy.Most of the animals are less fleshy.At least those I’ve managed to catch,I think, remembering my failed attempts at holding a woodland owl a few days ago.
I wonder if the male who stalks me is as squishy?
If I’m to live on the surface of the Earth and fulfill the task bestowed upon me, then making a friend would be nice. The only problem is I fear he won’t take kindly to me cleansing the rest of his kind of their disease. My purifying process is… messy.
I look down to the corpse I’ve just dropped. Since cleansing him, his color has turned more gray than pale, and his features are sunken. The sight makes my heart ache, but I keep reminding myself that this is my task. All the living organisms on Earth are at risk with the life-suckers left to ravage unchecked.
