Snippet #1246357

Blood... the seductive smell of the drink of the immortals...
Kaede stared down at the young woman below, a young creature just on her way home from work. She could feel the woman's pulse already, hear her heartbeat... smell her blood...
Crawling stealthily across the wall, her worn out bones cracking slightly as she positioned herself directly above the woman. Her ragged breathing tore through the heavy silence, causing the woman to stop.
"Hello? Is someone there?"
So young, so fresh...
With a piercing roar, Kaede flung herself down onto the woman, roughly biting into her neck as she started to drain her blood, the woman's screams like music in her ears.
She'd barely had time to finish when she heard the shriek of sirens.
Police...
Moving quicker than an insect, she scuttled back up the wall and onto the roof-top, making her way back to the geisha house at the very edge of the city.
As she crawled across the roof and down into one of the empty rooms, she became tense. The trouble with living in a place like this, you always felt like you were being watched. And when you rely on animal instinct, that's not a good thing.