THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
"Look at his sternum."
In the center of Malachi”s chest, where the sacred sun sigil had been crushed, a brass surgical manifold had been bolted directly into his ribcage. Four clear, glass tubes ran from the manifold down into his stomach cavity, where a pool of raw, un-purified harvest fluid bubbled and churned, sending dark, violet sparks through his dead muscle tissue with every artificial contraction.
The Church had built their own monster. Not a hybrid. Not a vampire. A blind, mindless, armored corpse fueled by the very substance they claimed to holy-purge.