I scaled the crumbling cliffs with ease in my renewed state. I felt able to have leapt them in one bound should I have needed. It was incredible the difference human blood made.
That got me to thinking, never a good thing at the best of times. I considered the past, something I was averse to being mostly ashamed of it, and marvelled at how grand the vampires of old must have been, those ancient ancestors of the Eternals. Their presence in a world dominated by man must have terrified, their eventual domination and destruction of the lesser beings even more so. Humanity"s failings at self-preservation were still a mystery though? How a race who"d constructed devices of such magnitude as to shape the very earth had allowed themselves to be conquered bordered on the ridiculous. Yet, they had.
