Chapter 22
The hunt. The hunter. The hunted.
Hunting is an innate state for animals in the wild, for vampires, even for humans. The first tribes of human civilization were hunter-gatherers where men hunted wild game and women gathered edible fruits and berries. To aid their hunting skills, humans invented arrowheads to bring the animals down. Vampires are closer to wild animals in their hunting skills, to lions in the jungle for example, than to humans who need weapons, strategy, and skill to conquer their game. We do not need arrows, traps, or guns, James thought. We need only our predatory instincts and natural abilities. To human eyes a vampire hunt might seem gorier than a lion attacking an antelope because vampires hunt humans, but most vampires are only looking to feed like the lio
