Chapter 6

After waiting patiently for me to seat myself next to her and then waiting a bit longer for me to get comfortable within her energy field, she told me how she and a few others were discovered by a small troop of mutant-vampires alongside those massacred that fateful night ten years ago.  No one could understand why she still breathed. For most of the people they found it was too late. The few who were holding on to life by a thin thread would die soon. After a brief debate on what to do, the leader of the troop decided to welcome them into their world.  They gave her and the other few still alive their venom.

My gasp didn’t go unnoticed when I heard the words mutant and vampire. Nor did the shift in my seating. Her hand shot out to catch my forearm in a vice grip, preventing me from following my instinct to run as far away, as fast as I could.

“You need not fear me, child,” she assured me. “I don’t drink the blood or eat the fles