[ She did. Of course she did. But as she looks up at the ceiling, she laughs a little darkly, and ... begins, ]
Two hundred years ago, some mongrel halfbreed decided that she could get he salvation by going to the humans and their God. Elements of their church had always been spreading vicious rumors against us, cursing our name and letting their flock think that we were monsters. [ They are the monsters. Humans are demons. ] I hope that bitch found it, [ That's said with dripping sarcasm ] because she sold out the locations of numerous estates and hiding places of families throughout Europe. Then for each house they slaughtered and burned, they found other others. Maybe they tortured it out of some of the others, I don't know.
The point is that the Inquisition came in force - the church brought their priests and their soldiers, their spooks and their thugs. Less than a month later, every house that anyone had ever heard of was rubble and ash - their occupants dead or fleeing. ... They came for my house. My James managed to whisk me to safety as those cross-bearing soldiers came, but I fought him every step of the way. I never saw what happened to daddy or mom, to my uncle or to... my brother. At the time, I dreamed they escaped to the woods, ever the resourceful Markers. But no, I'm well certain... they're dead by now.
[ She ... ] They're dead, the old estate's ash, and then grandmother and the others in the basement must've rotted to death in their sleep below that.
[ . . . ]
Those of us who survived went to Japan in utter secrecy - the other side of the world, far, far from out ancestral homelands, now forever tainted with out blood. we were to make a new life there - and I did. I did... but as James said, I never saw my homeland again.
[ . . . ]
The Assembly represents some three hundred vampires, the vampires of Japan. But as far as I know, we're the only ones left in the world.
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Two hundred years ago, some mongrel halfbreed decided that she could get he salvation by going to the humans and their God. Elements of their church had always been spreading vicious rumors against us, cursing our name and letting their flock think that we were monsters. [ They are the monsters. Humans are demons. ] I hope that bitch found it, [ That's said with dripping sarcasm ] because she sold out the locations of numerous estates and hiding places of families throughout Europe. Then for each house they slaughtered and burned, they found other others. Maybe they tortured it out of some of the others, I don't know.
The point is that the Inquisition came in force - the church brought their priests and their soldiers, their spooks and their thugs. Less than a month later, every house that anyone had ever heard of was rubble and ash - their occupants dead or fleeing. ... They came for my house. My James managed to whisk me to safety as those cross-bearing soldiers came, but I fought him every step of the way. I never saw what happened to daddy or mom, to my uncle or to... my brother. At the time, I dreamed they escaped to the woods, ever the resourceful Markers. But no, I'm well certain... they're dead by now.
[ She ... ] They're dead, the old estate's ash, and then grandmother and the others in the basement must've rotted to death in their sleep below that.
[ . . . ]
Those of us who survived went to Japan in utter secrecy - the other side of the world, far, far from out ancestral homelands, now forever tainted with out blood. we were to make a new life there - and I did. I did... but as James said, I never saw my homeland again.
[ . . . ]
The Assembly represents some three hundred vampires, the vampires of Japan. But as far as I know, we're the only ones left in the world.