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EXCERPT:
"I am what I am for I have become a creature of the blood; a
being who dwells in the world of the undead and always shall.
He knew I would make the choice to save the
children who are also creatures of the blood. He knew it for he had
orchestrated it, like the maestro that he is, Eco an immortal like my own
beloved; both of them born of fallen angels and human women. But whereas Louis
is good, Eco carries the seeds of Hell within him—
Eco our worst enemy; Eco the
destroyer of our friends, the fiend who had ravished me and would have married
me in Hell, before Satan himself; Eco who haunts my dreams and always shall.
He had staked the children, my children now for it
is my blood that flows within them. In order to save them I opened my own veins
that they should drink.
“Drink, my loves, for it is the only gift I have
for you.”
I gave up my living life for them and gladly, too.
But because of my act I saw the flames of Hell and felt Hell’s horrific heat.
Yet, Hell left no mark on me. I passed through it
and was raised. The one who loved me drew me forth. No demon touched me,
although they tried. Hordes upon hordes of them reached out to pull me back,
back into their master’s domain.
Yet just as they reached for me, I felt myself
snatched away. They shouted in rage as I was pulled still further and further
away.
And then, I heard a voice, a voice I knew. A
voice, it seemed, my heart always dreamt of.
“Rose, I command you to rise from death for death
shall not claim you!”
His voice called to me, summoning me forth—the
voice of my love, my Louis.
And then, like a baby being born, I emerged into
the bright light. I know now it was sunlight. Someone touched my hand. It was
Simon. My child now for I had perished giving him my own life force.
And so I was reborn. My transformation was all
embracing. All secrets were revealed as the truth of all worlds was shown me.
Every question I ever had about God or heaven or humanity was revealed.
I knew God was good and people were supposed to do
with their lives the most that they could. I knew about damnation and loyalty
to Heaven so that I better understood exile from that kingdom of light. Though
undead, I still did know what truth was.
I understood that to be separate from God for
whatever purpose was not to be desired, yet one great and fundamental truth was
this—that evil exists because good exists. It is the great balance to
everything.
And so I left one world to enter another—the world
of the undead, that place where I would dwell forever.
My senses were alive as they had never been
before. I smelled the wildlife that called the moors their home; birds and
rodents—and all manner of insects.
I heard sounds I had never heard. And it was all
mine to share with those I loved.
How Louis wept.
And what of my undead children?
At least they had not seen their friends destroyed.
At least they had been spared that..."
(end of excerpt)
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