I remembered when I was younger, when I'd realized what I was and just how powerful I could be. I wasn't born a vampire. Not many people know it. I was made, a young boy drunk on power and love, eager to spend eternity with the woman I loved…she was strong and I wanted that. Being a human was a curse for me at the time but then again, I was a child who did not know what curses truly were until I moved into the empire with her. Power. I wanted more than my body and my weak human soul could handle. In the end… Is this truly how I die? I felt cold, black blood slowly deep out my neck, I could barely feel the pain but I could tell the wound was closing up right after Akari took out the arrow. I would live. For now, it was the only thing that weighed heavily on me. The tim