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The Making of Monsters
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The Pack's Vampire King Thaelen
The Concordia, Eleven Hundred Years BeforeThe road was scarred with the annual pilgrimage fires, the trees and stones marked with the carvings left by those who travelled that way, recording their transit for those who would follow. Thaelen’s mark was amongst them. He had walked this path every year since Thorarin had decided that Thaelyn was approaching adulthood and old enough to perform the full sacrifice, and he had spent time in each fortress, growing to know the occupants, the lords and ladies, their children, their people, and their blood slaves.It hadn’t been a surprise to arrive again to a fortress burnt to a cinder, the dead left lying for the crows and carrion birds to feast upon, but the harsh call of the birds echoed the cries of his heart: How? How? How? He had to know, he thought. He had to know how this had come to be, how a force large enough had made it through the pass, how they had attacked with enough speed and force to overcome the vampires.His grief was raw a
The Pack's Vampire Defiance
The Human Enemy’s Land, Eleven Hundred Years BeforeThaelen sifted into consciousness off and on, hearing voices, the groans of wooden wheels over rough terrain, the creak and scrape of armour, and the huff of horses. It was his hunger that woke him, the gnawing thirst scraping its fingernails along his tongue and throat, squeezing his stomach, beading his skin with sweat. A journey of many days, for the hunger to grow to such an extent. How long did it take for a vampire to starve to death? He did not know, but he knew that the suffering was intense.He was in a wooden box, wrists and ankles chained - the mark of the One God engraved in the cuffs. His body ached in a way that he had never before experienced, the effort of raising his shaking hands to press against the lid of the box in which he lay almost too great to manage, his bones aching, his lungs heavy.A spell, Inora had said. What manner of spell could render a vampire so weak? What sort of witch would create such a thing kn
The Pack's Vampire The Cost of Life
The Human Enemy’s Land, Eleven Hundred Years BeforeThe human man remained in the farthest corner of the cell away from Thaelen, huddled in on himself, his skin growing paler and his shaking worse as the night progressed towards the morning. Thaelen sat, his elbows on his knees and his head resting against the wall, watching him through narrowed eyes and wondering at which point his hunger would drive him mad.“Do you have a name?” Thaelen’s voice was a hoarse whisper, his mouth and throat so desiccated that speaking was painful. His breath steamed on the bitterly cold air.“Not that it matters… Gera,” the human was shaking so hard he stuttered his words.“Gera, you are dying,” Thaelen told him. “You know this, do you not?”Gera’s moan was wretched.“I need for you to live,” Thaelen said through his teeth. His clothing was starting to dry, but he was bitterly cold. The cold would not kill him, he knew, but it was very painful to endure. “If you die, I die also. You need me to live, as
The Pack's Vampire Aislen's Return to Havermouth
Havermouth, Three Weeks BeforeThe days between passed the same way. Heath would wake alone in his bed and lay staring at the ceiling, telling himself that it was going to be the day. He would get up, dress in his gym clothes, take his suit in its drycleaning bag to the car with him and drive to the only gym in Havermouth and the same one that he’d been a member of since he’d been old enough to lift weights, and work out for an hour, before showering, shaving and dressing in the change rooms.He'd stop by the Boyston’s coffee shop for a protein shake and a coffee on his way to the office and make inane conversation with Diana whilst he waited for her to fill his order. He’d take his coffee and his shake to his office and open his laptop, reviewing the calendar for the day, before, unable to resist temptation any longer, he’d open the office emails and search from something from Aislen Carter or Morgana Ivy.The envelope of paperwork and Patrick Carter’s personal effects sat in his tra
The Pack's Vampire Aislen's Back
Havermouth, Three Weeks Before Cameron had just parked his Ute on the main street of town when his phone began to ring. Heath. He answered absently as he got out of the cab. “I’m just going for a run,” he told his mate without greeting. “I’ll grab something for dinner when I’m done. I know we need milk.” “I didn’t call about groceries,” Heath replied, and his tone of voice froze Cameron midway through closing the car door, his heart leaping within his chest. He knew, without a shadow of a doubt, what that tone of voice meant. “She’s back,” Cameron breathed into the phone. “Yes.”“What is she… what is she like?” Cameron asked leaning back against the car, his strength seeming to seep through his body and out the soles of his feet like water. Was she sorry, he meant. Was she sorry for leaving them, was she ready…? “Have you got her there?” He started to open the door, intending to go to them. “No,” Heath hesitated. “She’s… It’s hard to know, Cam. I don’t know.” “What do you mean, y
The Pack's Vampire Meeting Aislen in the Park
Havermouth, Three Weeks BeforeThe Triquetra lingered over their wine. Heath and Cameron had both detailed their encounters with Aislen and they had dissected every word she had said, every gesture, every expression between them.“So,” Rhett swirled the last of his wine around the inside of the glass. “Basically, she hasn’t changed at all. She’s still a smart mouthed bitch with a chip on her shoulder and an attitude.”“Yeah,” Cameron’s grin was wide. “Except she’s even sexier now. Wait until you see her, Rhett. You’re going to come in your jeans.”Heath leaned back in his chair. “We have time. The funeral isn’t until Friday. She’s not going anywhere until then.”“So, my turn?” Rhett wondered and saw Cameron and Heath exchange a look between them. He sighed heavily. “You’re f-king kidding me, right? She basically told Cameron to f-k off and she didn’t exactly throw herself into your arms either, Heath, but you’d have me, what, not see her at all? Because you’re jealous that she - ”“Rh
The Pack's Vampire Respect
Havermouth Present TimeAislen’s voice caught Heath’s attention and he turned to look across the room, to the open door of the office that had become Rhett’s cage. Heath’s mates were in the process of transforming the office into a bedroom for the five of them but had broken off their activity whilst Aislen argued with Rhett.“She wants to come,” Leighton observed looking up from the map of Havermouth that he had spread over a table in his workspace.“She does,” Heath agreed. Rhett was shaking his head, obviously agreeing with Cameron and Heath that it was simply too dangerous. “She’s always been f-king stubborn,” he added with a sigh. “Trouble from the moment we met her.”Leighton raised his eyebrows but looked down at the map without commenting on the argument. “Here would be the best route for us,” he traced it on the map.“I am assuming that you can move with stealth when needed,” Heath slid a look at the other man. He was fascinated by the confliction in his mind, the layering of
The Pack's Vampire The Hospital
Havermouth, Present TimeHeath stalked the shadows, feeling the breeze ruffle his fur as he paused to sniff the air. The carpark around the hospital was hidden beneath white tents that fluttered and shifted in constant movement. To get within the tent-city and the hospital beyond it, however, he had to pass the barricade – the road lit by floodlights, black 4WDs bottlenecking the road into a spike-strip. Keeping people out, not in, Heath thought. If the hospital were overrun with infected, surely their efforts would be directed the other way.“Help!” Talen’s voice rang out in the night, and Heath’s attention jerked to the road, his heart staggering to a panicked halt as the vampire ran towards the barricade carrying Aislen in his arms. He could smell blood, and Aislen clutched her hand to her neck.The soldiers broke from the barricade to surround Talen as he approached.“She is bleeding!” Talen’s voice rose over the soldiers enquiries. “She needs medical care.”Heath was frozen. What
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- The Pack's Vampire Rhett's Attempt
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