Snippet #2732564

The vampires were in a word, savage. Crimson light glittered in their eyes as they stared down at the first prey they had seen in years, decades it felt like to some of them. More than a handful had been driven crazy for lack of blood. It was hardly a surprise that a handful of them had chosen to throw themselves headlong into danger in their endless, bottomless thirst for blood. It drove them, compelled them, ate at them and they were slaves to its will. So they charged what they thought was an easy meal.

The first few had learned the hard way that such a thing seemed to be all but an easy meal. This lone woman had been able to cut her way through any and all who attempted to bring her low and yet they seemed to be undeterred. This of course were the feral few who had lost themselves and alll sense of who they had once been in the depths of their thirst. They had become little more than skulking beasts that had no greater sense of themselves, no more understanding than what they had lost than that of a wild dog.

It was the loss of these bestial companions that taught the others who still retained their sanity something they had not felt in a long time. Fear. This woman, this one lone figure was standing alone, defiant against them and their wrath, depriving them of that most delicious and needed of sustenance. And yet though they knew there was a great risk there they felt that perhaps in a great number they could overcome this interloper. So they gathered in numbers and began to surge forwards.

And then they halted, the vampires stopping in their tracks and sniffing at the night air, their heads turning to the oriental castle that sat upon the hilltop only a short distance away, silhouetted against the waxing moon as it hung heavily over them. There seemed to be something of an internal debate between their number, some of them looking back towards the woman as even a few of them already began to detach and head back towards the castle. With many a hiss and a screech a great exodus began as these vampires rapidly withdrew to their more defensible position.