Tomorrows Child by Starr West

Author:Starr West
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: goddesses, magical realism, fantasy, adventure, magic adventure, postapocalypse, dreams
Publisher: Starr West

My God, I was being held captive by a modern day vampire. I had read about this, sanguine vampires who drank blood and psychic vampires who drained a person’s spiritual energy. Both contained the life force Caitlyn spoke of. I thought it was a myth, but I had not read about a vampire who fed on human blood and spiritual energy. It was repulsive in the extreme, and what made it worse was that she had convinced this poor child it was normal. This child believed it was essential to life.

“Do you drink blood, Caitlyn?” Perhaps I could explain, convince her that it was not normal, that a vampire didn’t need fangs to be evil.

“Not often. Sometimes when Volante has taken too much, or needs more than she normally does. Then she gets me to drink some, just to keep my strength up. I don’t need it like she does. She says if I get real tired, the best thing is a little life force. I feel better right away.”

Volante was training this child as an apprentice and it was unlikely that I could convince this girl to leave, to escape with me. Escape was my only option. I had been here too long to expect rescue, relying on Phoenix, and I feared the worse. A woman capable of draining the blood of a child was capable of anything.

I didn’t know all the differences between the Hollywood-style vampire and a real vampire. The one holding me captive could have been capable of anything. If the bloodlust so vividly displayed on film was real, Phoenix may very well be… even Libby… It was unbearable to think of their demises this way. But I had to assume that I was now alone.

It was some time before we spoke again. I was plotting an escape, but my first escape had to be from this room. Leaving this room meant agreeing to become a blood donor or worse, an apprentice to a vampire witch. Both ideas sickened me.

Caitlyn stood, “I’ll tell her you said yes, okay?” I looked at her, I was seething inside and wanted to scream and shake sense into this girl, but I said nothing. She walked to the door and reached into her pocket, taking out the key before leaving the room. She had the key all along! She was my escape and if I hadn’t been drugged, I may have been able to discern this sooner.

Every day, I had learned more about the magick of nature, but nothing about human nature. The perversion that surrounded me was difficult to comprehend. At least in the Hollywood version, a vampire was either a parasite to be slaughtered, or the hero with at least one redeeming quality. It could even be a tortured soul in love with the heroine. At the end of a movie, I could switch off the telly and forget all about vampires until next time. This was different - this was real - this was a nightmare I couldn’t turn off.

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