The Anima is my life now, nothing else. They are my Family and the night is
my home. I don't even remember who I was before I became a hideous night
crawler, before Jon sunk his teeth into my neck and I acquired a horrible
taste for blood. I only remember I couldn't sleep one night so I went for a
moonlit walk. That was 4 years ago, and that makes me the youngest member
of our clan.
Anima means blood in Italian. It seems fitting to me, we are like the commonly thought of Mafia. But we are the night time version of that notorious gang in Italy, and our dealings are quite different. We don't fight the humans; they are of little importance to us other than food. We fight other "gangs" of vampires like ourselves. It's all about power, dominance over all others.
Our home is a large mansion up on the hill as most would imagine. It houses maybe 100 of us at a time, but I have never worried about really figuring the numbers out. Every 3 years there is a large assembly and all the Anima vampires get together and basically congratulate themselves. Tonight is that night and it will be my first time to be allowed to attend and frankly I would be much happier to stay in my room and read, but it is required.
I have friends here, Meko and Arielle. Arielle is a stout black woman who is in charge when our Lord Tariq is away on business. And Meko.... she's a quiet Asian girl about 600 years older than me.....but I still feel so alone. I miss the sunlight. It's hard to know how much you love something until it's gone. I must have had a family to. I was barely 16 when it happened...
The first time I drank a human's blood the very idea that I had even enjoyed it made me violently ill. Meko and Arielle tried to console me but I wouldn't come out of my room for weeks. They've been vampires much longer than I have so they've gotten used to it I suppose...
After I came to this place I tried hard to remember who I was... but somehow the transformation had erased all my memories.... I did remember one thing about my past though... my name. My name is Shae and I have no real place here... no task I perform, I merely take up space until I am told otherwise. Why Jon chose to convert me I guess I never will know... I rarely see him and I don't want to seek him out willingly....
Anima means blood in Italian. It seems fitting to me, we are like the commonly thought of Mafia. But we are the night time version of that notorious gang in Italy, and our dealings are quite different. We don't fight the humans; they are of little importance to us other than food. We fight other "gangs" of vampires like ourselves. It's all about power, dominance over all others.
Our home is a large mansion up on the hill as most would imagine. It houses maybe 100 of us at a time, but I have never worried about really figuring the numbers out. Every 3 years there is a large assembly and all the Anima vampires get together and basically congratulate themselves. Tonight is that night and it will be my first time to be allowed to attend and frankly I would be much happier to stay in my room and read, but it is required.
I have friends here, Meko and Arielle. Arielle is a stout black woman who is in charge when our Lord Tariq is away on business. And Meko.... she's a quiet Asian girl about 600 years older than me.....but I still feel so alone. I miss the sunlight. It's hard to know how much you love something until it's gone. I must have had a family to. I was barely 16 when it happened...
The first time I drank a human's blood the very idea that I had even enjoyed it made me violently ill. Meko and Arielle tried to console me but I wouldn't come out of my room for weeks. They've been vampires much longer than I have so they've gotten used to it I suppose...
After I came to this place I tried hard to remember who I was... but somehow the transformation had erased all my memories.... I did remember one thing about my past though... my name. My name is Shae and I have no real place here... no task I perform, I merely take up space until I am told otherwise. Why Jon chose to convert me I guess I never will know... I rarely see him and I don't want to seek him out willingly....