People love stories.8Please respect copyright.PENANAwnbzREWFf7
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.8Please respect copyright.PENANAaS6vFvUUbu
We observe, endure, remember. That’s why, so they say, we’re such skilled storytellers.8Please respect copyright.PENANAJm61joB9kJ
But people are mistaken, as they so often are. We are no historians, no chroniclers; if anything, we are masters of repression and forgetting.8Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1GTrRjZ3o
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.8Please respect copyright.PENANAEENnacr1iZ
Yet sometimes, a sweet elixir colors that poison, and life becomes bearable for a moment.8Please respect copyright.PENANAwJLTlyUHnH
It’s strange, after all these years, that I have never told you how things truly were.8Please respect copyright.PENANAU9mAGuxL70
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.8Please respect copyright.PENANAnMxQ3iCGbB
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.8Please respect copyright.PENANAKV9WPegcPT
There are tales we tell to justify ourselves and to others. And there are stories we tell so we no longer have to.8Please respect copyright.PENANAhhLIqByqEm
This is neither. I tell it because you deserve it. Because you shouldn’t have to hear any more lies.8Please respect copyright.PENANAlpbWTFqZ3M
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.8Please respect copyright.PENANA2yg7Plzehx
You know, lies come easily to me. But today, I have nothing left but the truth.8Please respect copyright.PENANAGOxuWmfnD6
For you.8Please respect copyright.PENANALpicper5tb
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