To Become The Monster
“Step one: you do not go to a newly-turned. You want someone with experience. Someone at least… three hundred years old. If not older.”
Mae’s green eyes widened, impressed and a little unnerved. “Three hundred? That’s… a long apprenticeship.”
“Three centuries,” Rowan corrected. “They know restraint. They know how to handle the hunger, the change, the… cravings. Most newly-turned collapse, attack indiscriminately, or vanish entirely. You will not survive that lesson.”
Mae leaned back, frowning, considering. “Okay, got it. Old, patient, experienced. What else?”