The night sky burned.
Great pillars of fire and smoke billowed upward, turning the black expanse into a treacherous murk. Siege weapons lay shattered and broken as they burned. The walls of the vampire queen's fortress were blackened with scorch marks, yet Lord Darryl's armies had made not a single wall cave. It was almost as if some dark and foul magic had been cast over the castle. Darryl would not have put it past the loathsome creature.
Soldiers cried out in the battle. Large, misshapen shadows rippled through the rising smoke. At the earliest opportunity, those evil beasts would plunge from the sky to attack Darryl's men.
Blood, entrails, and bodies made the earth a difficult surface to war upon.
Darryl came upon a vampire feeding on one of his soldiers. The creature raised its he
