Tales Told by the Fireside
By the Gangrel of the british Isles and Eire
As recalled by Qualin Hess, Wilderness blood of the Cammarilla, Journeymann of Eire
The Embrace as it happened to Jen McAllister, Wilderness Blood of Camarilla, Primogen of Southampton Fareham & Gosport, Fought at the Assaults of Southampton, Saved Mortals from Burning Plane Wreckage.

[Jen walks over and sits next to Rho-an, putting a friendly arm round her]

Hey, sister, it's OK. You got nothing to apologise for. But seeing as we're telling stories, let me say what happened.. it was less than a year ago.. a lot of you know now that I was brought up on a.. commune, so we were pretty much isolated. I was on patrol when I saw him. I was going to shout.. but instead I followed him into the darkness. I dunno why even today. There wasn't any pain, I guess that's why I never made a sound. Something stopped me I guess. He embraced me in the darkness of the forest then left. After I woke up later - and hunted - it didn't horrify me because I've always hunted and it was just.. different - he came back for a little while and said I was Gangrel, that I would survive, that the mutants were Lupines. I just sort of ended up at the domain during my travels and stayed. I couldn't stay there because my family would have killed me, they would think I was a mutant. And I wouldn't have been able to fight back. [laughs] Hey, I guess he has a thing for young brunettes who live in the sticks, huh? [pats Rho-Ans shoulder in a friendly way]

But.. seriously.. he took us both away from our families. Mine are still alive but I can't see them and I can't even mourn them. But.. we have another family, now. [smiles]

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