Vampire Novel
Proof of concept for a YA Vampire novel I've been playing with for a while...
On our first day at the academy, we meet Headmaster Tepes for the first and hopefully the only time. If you ever meet him again, it means the end of your life, one way or another.
The Headmaster relates with glee the history of how, ever before the shroud was broken, humanity obsessed over vampires. He gloats over how close their stories were to the truth, and hints that he and the other Elders were even behind it. He then goes on to explain how they guided the humans, created the industrial revolution, and waited while mankind polluted the planet so much - they managed to block out the Vampires only weakness.
Even to the simple ears of a seven year old, it is clearly a well crafted lesson, perfected no doubt after centuries of giving it every year. He tells us just enough to ridicule our ancestors, to make us understand how hopeless our situation is, and yet not enough for us to be able to glimpse the truth - all to tantalise us with the prospect of how one day, the greatest and best of us will learn it - for one in every year group of four thousand will go on to become something meaningful, something that isn’t worthless. One person in our year, will Ascend.
The one thing I’ve been sure of since that lesson, is that one person could never be me.
On our first day at the academy, we meet Headmaster Tepes for the first and hopefully the only time. If you ever meet him again, it means the end of your life, one way or another.
The Headmaster relates with glee the history of how, ever before the shroud was broken, humanity obsessed over vampires. He gloats over how close their stories were to the truth, and hints that he and the other Elders were even behind it. He then goes on to explain how they guided the humans, created the industrial revolution, and waited while mankind polluted the planet so much - they managed to block out the Vampires only weakness.
Even to the simple ears of a seven year old, it is clearly a well crafted lesson, perfected no doubt after centuries of giving it every year. He tells us just enough to ridicule our ancestors, to make us understand how hopeless our situation is, and yet not enough for us to be able to glimpse the truth - all to tantalise us with the prospect of how one day, the greatest and best of us will learn it - for one in every year group of four thousand will go on to become something meaningful, something that isn’t worthless. One person in our year, will Ascend.
The one thing I’ve been sure of since that lesson, is that one person could never be me.