I have many stories to tell, but those can be told another day. I have a lot of time, but the question is do you?To whom it may concern:
Draining- This is a word that can mean two different things. If you are of the common man, you know it as the draining of all possible liquids from a container. For me it means life; with life comes death. I have lived over 4700 human years. Just so you may understand my family use a different system for age. When every 40 human years have passed, we have only aged one year older. When a human born at the same time as one of us, they are 40 years old by the time we have only aged one year. With only small breaks of five to six human months between deaths, we can live a long time.
Throughout my life I have been called many things: demon of hell, a bloodluster, a monster, and in the last few hundred years it has become fashionable to be called by the name of a bat, a vampire. The stories humans write give us no credit. In my most recent birth, I was born like any other child, but I just happen to like the taste of blood a little more than a "normal" human. I have a mother, just like you, I have a father just like you. But, my mother is different, she encouraged me to drink of my wounds and the wounds of others. I listened to her, and found it very nice.
I would like to set a few things straight. We don't die of stakes through the heart. Most of us don't mind crucifixes. We surely don't mind the smell of garlic, otherwise how could we have survived in Italy. Your accusations of our necessity of coffins is phony. Yes, they are much better than normal beds for keeping out the light, but they aren't the best for your back. And then there is the superstition that we cannot stand the sun. Yes, we do prefer the dark, but I personally find the sun quite appealing. I like it especially when it is setting; it means that night is, in fact, coming once again. The only way that the sun harms me is the same that it harms you, it gives us both skin cancer.
When I do feed, I make it as pleasant as possible, at least as possible as death can get. I personally normally feed only in small portions at a time with the permission of my prey. There are others that you know of, that have no dignity. Those are the ones that give us a bad reputation, the ones who feed upon many a night. I do agree that it is wrong that they do this, but your understanding is necessary for my kinds survival.
When I first came to this planet, I came here with the colonists that fled Mars when the war was over. At out arrival we noticed that food was at a low number, so our numbers and the numbers of our prey had to stay at a minimum while the world was in the process of revitalizing the human race.
I had lived for around ten and a half human years here, when my body began to deteriorate. I felt that it had to do with the different kind of atmosphere, so I found myself dying. When I did die, I knew there was a chance that I would not be reborn. (As you can see, I was wrong.) I knew we were in a new place, and many things had changed. But I was wrong for the first time, but I certainly was not right for the last.
I have many stories to tell, but those can be told another day. I have a lot of time, but the question is do you?
Sincerely,
P.S. And I wish to tell all of you mortals... Only a "vampire" can kill itself. We can make it appear as though we were murdered, just so that we are not antagonized and longer. I have lived up to 25 years, equivalent to 1000 of your years, before I died. But there have also been times that I have died at the human age of 1 month.