Listen
to me. You had better listen.
You
fools, you think you know so much.
Space
flight, computer technology, genetic engineering... you take them all for
granted now.
But
once you kind scoffed at them, refused to believe in the possibility of
their existence.
You
were proven wrong.
You
no longer believe in Us.
We
will prove you wrong.
We
exist.
We
have existed as long as you.
We
are not superstition. We are not folklore.
We
are not an imaginary terror.
We
are all you nightmares come true.
We
are the real terror, the True terror.
Believe
it. Believe me.
For
I am proof.
We
look like men, We walk like men, in your presence, We act like men.
But
We are not men.
Believe
that too.
We
are the Ancient Evil....Ancient Evil...
...How
many of Us are there? Not many.
A
few hundred. We have never been more that a few hundred.
Scattered
across continents. In cities and small towns, in wilderness.
Hot climes and cold.
Moving,
always moving, never too long in one place.
Hiding
among you, the bold and clever ones.....the ones like me. Hiding
alone
This
is our legacy:
Hiding
Hunting
Hungering
You
think you've been hungry, but you have not.
You
do not know what it mean to be hungry all the time, to have the blood-taste
in your mouth and the blood-craving in your brain, and the blood-heat in
you loins.
But
some of you will find out.
Many
of you, someday, unless you listen and believe.
Each
new generation of Us is bolder that the last.
And
hungrier....
...We
are not all the same. Your stupid folklore says We are, but We are
not.
Over
the centuries, We have undergone genetic changes, just as you have:
We
have evolved. You are children of you time.
So
are We.
Some
hunger for animal flesh, animal blood. Sheep. Cattle.
Dogs. Smaller creatures with fur and pulsing heart. They are
the prey.
One
here, two there, ten in this county, fifty or a hundred in that state.
You
think it is one animal killing another.
Natural
selection, survival of the fittest.
You
are right, but you are also wrong.
Believe
it.
We
are not all the same. Others of Us have different hungers.
Human flesh, human blood, yes.
But
that isn't all. We have evolved; our tastes have altered, grown discriminating.
Male
flesh and male blood. Female. Child.
And
not always do We desire the soft flesh af the throat, the bright sweet
blood from the jugular. And not always do We feed in frenzy
He
is of the old breed--not the most fearsome of Us. He is sickened
by the things he is compelled to do; this is why he is warning you.
The
new breed...it is with Us, the New Breed, that the ultimate terror lies.
We
are not the same....
...Haven't
you ever wondered why there have been so many unexplained disappearances
in the past few decades?
Why
so many children have are kidnapped?
Why
there is so seldom any trace of the missing ones?
Haven't
you ever wondered about all the random murders, so many more of them now
than in the past, and why the bloody remains of certain victims were left
behind?
You
fools! You blind fools, who do you think the serial killers really
are....
...He
is of the old breed--not the most fearsome of Us. Sickened by the
things he is compelled to do. He now warns you. It is with
Us, the New Breed, that the ultimate terror lies.
We
are not the same...
...Believe
it. Believe me. I am the proof.
We
look like men, We walk and talk like men, in you presence We act like men.
But We are not men.
Believe
that too.
We
are the Ancient Evil....
...You
fools, you blind fools....
...Beware
of the New Breed...
Adapted
from the "Ancient Evil" in The Ultimate Werewolf
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