Twilight Forever Rising by Lena Meydan

Author:Lena Meydan [Meydan, Lena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429934107
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2010-09-28T03:00:00+00:00

10

GOOD EVENING, NACHTTOTER!

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

—Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist”

October 31

Miklosh was rereading The History of the Blood Brothers, written by a member of the Dahanavar family who, in his opinion, was not very bright. But then, what could you expect from a lousy blautsauger? Especially one who was under a mormolika’s thumb.

Four hundred years earlier, the gloriously delightful Felicia had got the idea of creating a brief outline of the history of the vampire families since their foundation. At first Balza had been amused—it was a case of a fly trying to swallow an elephant. But then he had stopped laughing. She had swallowed it, may the sun burn out her cursed eyes!

Now the History, published in modern book format, was on the compulsory reading list for four of the Houses and recommended reading for all the others.

Miklosh had to admit that there was a grain or two of truth in the trashy book. But this truth was swamped by a concoction of innuendo and lies. Felicia had the audacity to create a book that only had anything good to say about her own family.

The pure, snow-white Dahanavar. The lie made the Nachttoter feel sick. Reading it gave the impression that all the members of that House would soon sprout wings.

The author described in tedious detail how, almost since the moment the world was created, the righteous blautsaugers, led by their “far-seeing” elders, had controlled humans “wisely and worthily” in the desire to lead them to universal well-being and prosperity. And also how benign and noble the Dahanavar were. How they were peaceful and wished to be friends with all the blood brothers. But the fact that this friendship was entirely one-sided, and catered only to the interests of the peacemakers themselves, was omitted.

Naturally, this despicable tome paid much less attention to the other families. In addition, it was absolutely riddled with crude errors and distortions of facts that supported the policies of the House of Ladies.

That was Miklosh’s opinion.

Some families came in for harsher criticism than others. In Balza’s opinion the Nachterret, for instance, were trampled underfoot. It infuriated him that the great family of the Golden Hornets had been transformed into raving psychos who craved nothing but blood and lived only through the sufferings of others. Felicia appeared not to have the slightest idea about the House’s profound philosophy, which no rational thinker would ever have tried to dispute. But she did know about it. She understood the logic. She had never been able to refute it. Even so, the thousand-year history of the Nachterret family had simply been thrown out like garbage. Mocked and ridiculed! It was grotesque!

The first time he had opened the book (the seventeenth century was just beginning at the time), Balza had almost gone berserk in his fury. It had cost him a serious effort to suppress the desire to go to the First Elder of the House of Dahanavar and crush her skull with his own hands.

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