Nineteen:
“You’re not going into battle without learning how to feed first! If you should become critically wounded, yer nature will kick in with a vengeance. You might accidentally kill your prey.”
I chided and informed my fledgling, and Patrick looked utterly gobby. His depression was because he was now starving for human blood. The very substance which had—until recently—run through his veins.
With many sires and their fledglings, I’d witnessed this shame. Humans turned Vampyr could enter a period where they feel like cannibals or psychopaths. This shame and pain are not dissimilar to the experience of coming to terms with one’s sexuality. People will wrestle and demonize themselves, as is common in society around them.
“Look, yer not going to kill them. Ye were dying, I gained yer
