Chapter 1: Prelude “ The night is dark and full of terrors ” — Game of Thrones. One word: vampires. We are an ancient race trying to survive in modern times. Our race is dying, ebbed away by a raging war that has lasted for thousands of years. There used to be many of us, but now, so few of us are left. I ’ ve read about how large, powerful houses have fallen in the span of a single day. An entire clan, slaughtered mercilessly. One family can be completely obliterated in just one single attack. I ’ ve even seen some of it occur throughout my life. It ’ s scary to think that immortals like us can die so easily. And we owe all of this terror to the werewolves, our arch nemesis. The moon children used to only be able to turn during the full moon. But lately, we ’ ve heard some disturbing

