People love stories.371Please respect copyright.PENANA4lfWOoMByo
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.371Please respect copyright.PENANA1ns09WgLQP
We observe, endure, remember. That’s why, so they say, we’re such skilled storytellers.371Please respect copyright.PENANAYajZRYV1oR
But people are mistaken, as they so often are. We are no historians, no chroniclers; if anything, we are masters of repression and forgetting.371Please respect copyright.PENANAIMvGBhWzAH
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.371Please respect copyright.PENANAf4MWN5F1iu
Yet sometimes, a sweet elixir colors that poison, and life becomes bearable for a moment.371Please respect copyright.PENANAMtA8BXa12e
It’s strange, after all these years, that I have never told you how things truly were.371Please respect copyright.PENANAD3Z7SBTs27
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.371Please respect copyright.PENANA4ZiAjAqKnG
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.371Please respect copyright.PENANAMjs2wfjp67
There are tales we tell to justify ourselves and to others. And there are stories we tell so we no longer have to.371Please respect copyright.PENANA3AD362W3YS
This is neither. I tell it because you deserve it. Because you shouldn’t have to hear any more lies.371Please respect copyright.PENANArBNLk3iYm3
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.371Please respect copyright.PENANAKYt8t3ICVY
You know, lies come easily to me. But today, I have nothing left but the truth.371Please respect copyright.PENANAntuViyZLKp
For you.371Please respect copyright.PENANAvL1tc9iHQw
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