The Vampires' Birthright
“It happened the very next night.
We were ready on June 13th, and I assumed such a fiend would take glee in the obvious connection to an occult number, even though it landed on a Wednesday rather than the Friday so often associated with calamity and miserable luck.
The vampires residing on Racco’s tiny island didn’t feel it had anything to do with human superstitions. After all, since Ralu was only two years younger than Gustav, his birth preceded this particular superstition by three th...ousand years. What they based their expectation of attack upon was the speed with which Ralu could move his army—the majority of which they believed to be back in Europe after ransacking Nashville and Charleston.
“Ralu will attack sometime tonight,” Gustav said to the nearly five hundred vampires gathered outside the palace at dusk that Wednesday evening. “We know he is drawn to the boy, to his own blood that has polluted the veins, arteries, and heart of Peter Worley.MoreLess
We were ready on June 13th, and I assumed such a fiend would take glee in the obvious connection to an occult number, even though it landed on a Wednesday rather than the Friday so often associated with calamity and miserable luck.
The vampires residing on Racco’s tiny island didn’t feel it had anything to do with human superstitions. After all, since Ralu was only two years younger than Gustav, his birth preceded this particular superstition by three th...ousand years. What they based their expectation of attack upon was the speed with which Ralu could move his army—the majority of which they believed to be back in Europe after ransacking Nashville and Charleston.
“Ralu will attack sometime tonight,” Gustav said to the nearly five hundred vampires gathered outside the palace at dusk that Wednesday evening. “We know he is drawn to the boy, to his own blood that has polluted the veins, arteries, and heart of Peter Worley.MoreLess
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