I was already an old man in the time when my Sire Daulton embraced me. He never gave me a choice, this immortality, but I have come to enjoy and relish in it. I spent many centuries living with, and studying from my Sire, and then in an act of rebellion, I left. I waited many, many more centuries, before I found the urge to have childer of my own. I waited until I found the perfect prize, a young man seemingly alone in the world, torn between anger and love, rage and calm. A devil and a lonely angel fighting for control within his soul. A young man named John, who later took the name NightCloud.
I brought him into this world, and left him to sleep the day away to wait for me in a crypt. When I came for him the next night, he already was feasting upon the bodies of young lovers out for a walk. I was horrified at what he did, so casually, with such reckless abandon. I took him to my Abode, and taught him that night, all that I had to teach. When he awoke in the dawn, I was gone.
I left my child the deed to the Abode, as well as money, and a few books that I had kept there. I do not really know why, that after so long that I had waited to have him, I left him so easily. I suppose in some way, his ruthlessness reminded me of what I was supposed to be, but that I could never seem to be at that point. I watched him though, as he struggled through his unlife, and as each night he would awaken, to greet the stars and the moon, with the pledge to find the love that alluded him.
I was determined to bring him such love.
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I found Starshine when she too was alone, with no family to miss her, a young woman on the brink of falling apart. I followed her for weeks. From her parent’s funeral, to the home she had grown up in. I watched as she entered the houses of god, and found no solace in the verses she had spoken as a child. I took her one night, and created a demon, in the guise of an angel. I knew that she would be the perfect compliment for her blood brother, but I did not know what that would mean. She too I tried to teach, but after time, I realized that once more, it was not for me to live with another. To have to be a father, a teacher to another, when I still could not accept what I was. So, she too I left to her own. She too I left with more money than she could spend in a hundred mortal lifetimes, the penthouse suite I owned, and a library of books, some even older than myself. | |