Snippet #1297544

Delacroix was suddenly, unexpectedly withdrawn from his reverie of thoughts by an alluring melody that called out his name. His arms once folded respectively across his chest, fell as he turned, surprised that Ana had not left his presence and he had been blathering on without noticing. He quietly lifted his hands behind his back, clasping his fingers behind his back. He tilted his head slightly, cocking to the side in a slant. His brow furrowed as he began nodding to her statements. He would then smile almost sadly, and let his arms fall once more to his side. Stepping out from behind his heavy dark wood desk.

"We were all hum an once, Ana. Once, no longer. We can't be baited so easily to past conceptions. To be trifled with the past is a fool's paradise. I have lived six hundred long years. I am the eldest of our kind to date. There would be others, lie myself and perhaps- a lot like the others. But the World Wars, the Spanish Inquisition-the Civil Wars. Each of these were made by the humans to route us. To draw us out in the open so that were were much more easier to kill. You say I have to choose. I am telling you- I have no choice. I made this establishment. With the blood of sons and father- with mother and daughter. Of humankind, of vampirekind." Delacroix then stopped in front of Anna.


"Tell me, does a man born in destitution deserve to be poor? Does he choose his fate? No. Does the unborn child or the child who is born but killed by a stray bullet fired from someone they have never even met- get to choose a side? I have the power to tear the very life force from a man that dares make an attempt on me- but I haven't the power to make the difference you can. I am the progenitor and to destroy or upset this fragile existence we have- as bad as it is at times- is to destroy me in my entirety. If I were to change the rules, every vampire would be in grave danger- that includes you. I can't allow that to happen. That is the most selfish thing I have done in my six hundred years of living-but I am somehow earnestly proud of myself for it."