THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
her childhood in the Nursery, the first time she”d met him, the way he”d learned to touch her”starting to fade, being pulled into the system”s final purge.
She leaned down and pressed her forehead against his, a final, desperate transfer of everything she was.
"I”d rather be alone in the silence," she whispered, "than a puppet in your garden."
She closed her eyes and pushed her consciousness into the key, overriding the system”s final safeguard. The entire vault went white. The sound of the world ending became the sound of a heartbeat”slow, steady, and then, with a final, violent thud, absolute silence.