People love stories.405Please respect copyright.PENANAsidf8rgjgS
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.405Please respect copyright.PENANAoEA45rUDY6
We observe, endure, remember. That’s why, so they say, we’re such skilled storytellers.405Please respect copyright.PENANAZl6feEC82h
But people are mistaken, as they so often are. We are no historians, no chroniclers; if anything, we are masters of repression and forgetting.405Please respect copyright.PENANANav0cBBhyr
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.405Please respect copyright.PENANADcXCw32W6I
Yet sometimes, a sweet elixir colors that poison, and life becomes bearable for a moment.405Please respect copyright.PENANAjsVfTmCn0q
It’s strange, after all these years, that I have never told you how things truly were.405Please respect copyright.PENANALFjz421brm
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.405Please respect copyright.PENANAgccPgA1CcZ
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.405Please respect copyright.PENANAp7ybwWUdgn
There are tales we tell to justify ourselves and to others. And there are stories we tell so we no longer have to.405Please respect copyright.PENANAcABW0SbDaB
This is neither. I tell it because you deserve it. Because you shouldn’t have to hear any more lies.405Please respect copyright.PENANA4MmrlfdqRZ
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.405Please respect copyright.PENANAwWgaVjgnyr
You know, lies come easily to me. But today, I have nothing left but the truth.405Please respect copyright.PENANANk5OKSvuX5
For you.405Please respect copyright.PENANAtm0qPjHNkg
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