People love stories.385Please respect copyright.PENANAJwghOstqOS
But all the nonsense the rabble makes up about vampires would deserve its own pyre, and I, for one, would be the first to set it alight.385Please respect copyright.PENANAlxTRG9y0YK
We observe, endure, remember. That’s why, so they say, we’re such skilled storytellers.385Please respect copyright.PENANA5NaSrvlB2X
But people are mistaken, as they so often are. We are no historians, no chroniclers; if anything, we are masters of repression and forgetting.385Please respect copyright.PENANAWoBKJvxplK
The truth is, none of us ever wanted to become those dark witnesses you believe us to be. And most memories are nothing but poison in the mind, slowly seeping through and tainting every perception of the present.385Please respect copyright.PENANAdSFRmE7T4h
Yet sometimes, a sweet elixir colors that poison, and life becomes bearable for a moment.385Please respect copyright.PENANAVuyHQwymI6
It’s strange, after all these years, that I have never told you how things truly were.385Please respect copyright.PENANA6i4mZHIckj
Not the story I fed you as a child: that night in the forest, the basket, how I found you, and all we’ve been through together; you know those details by heart, and they are true. But all the shades in between, what happened while you were still too young to understand, that is what I owe you.385Please respect copyright.PENANAdFQr4IZv71
This is another story, one I once believed was mine alone. A story about lies I told myself, simply to hold on to what I never wanted to lose.385Please respect copyright.PENANA6Xs02X6tzn
There are tales we tell to justify ourselves and to others. And there are stories we tell so we no longer have to.385Please respect copyright.PENANApPsej6VcaN
This is neither. I tell it because you deserve it. Because you shouldn’t have to hear any more lies.385Please respect copyright.PENANAD9HubC05Md
It is mine, yours, ours. And one day it will be little more than a footnote, marked by a question mark, in the chronicles of Vargarin: an undead raising a human child.385Please respect copyright.PENANAoZJdVBZgT4
You know, lies come easily to me. But today, I have nothing left but the truth.385Please respect copyright.PENANA86X2KBB4Q8
For you.385Please respect copyright.PENANA5bTRj2VoXh
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