Snippet #902530

Of course...how I became a vampire. I leaned back. "It's kind of a long tale, you know. This might take a while, but again, it's been a while since I've had company to talk to.

"Now...three thousand years ago we didn't quite have houses; more like huts. I lived with only my parents and older brother until he married and moved out. He did still come to visit me; quite often, actually. Now, this is a while before I was turned, but I like to go a bit farther back, you know? Well, one day every man in our little village was sent off to fight a war; which is the reason why I wasn't married when I came of age, and was supposed to be. A year or two after that, the enemy army raided the village. They were evil creatures, really. A lot of what was left of our village were killed, my mother included. I was left for dead after..." Ah, I should have laft that part out, I thought. ...Well...I supposed it would explain the mother part. I shrugged. "After they raped me. Which did leave me with a child, one that I had to try to care for on my own, too. There were really only a few of us left after that, and we tried to leave." Ah, the part I did hate so much... "I kinda took command of our tiny band of women, and a couple of them were in the exact same position I was in; a child they had to care for by themselves. I went off on my own, and that vampire...he's the one that I killed; the only one. He killed the child, and changed me, and that's the only reason I killed him."

I reached back, pulling out the sketch. I glanced at it before showing it to him. "He was only a year old, too..." I shook my head. "Asking me to give information on the leaders...what kind of information, and why? I'm not a spy; I won't relay information that will end up to any of those...trouble-makers, for lack of a better term." I wasn't going to give out information that would do anything to help the war along. They were just fine sitting at a stalemate.