THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
There were hundreds.
They were smaller, thinner, and utterly hairless, their pale, translucent bodies packed tightly together like a swarm of albino bats hanging over an open grave. Their six-inch ivory finger-needles were linked together, forming a living, breathing ceiling of bone and hungry mouthparts, all pulsing in rhythm with the brass pump in Malachi”s chest.
They were the failure pool of the High Sanctum. The discarded, half-formed biological abominations that Dominic”s inquisitors had swept down the drains for twenty years, left to feast on the runoff of the Third Vault until they became a singular, hive-minded organism.