Chapter 256

It has always been known that non-humans should conceal and stay away for the survival of all. Our kinds have hidden for millennia since numbers dwindled after the great vamp wars. We will never out-populate them because we don’t reproduce in numbers the way they can, and with all our inner species wars going on, we can never focus any energy on subduing the humans. We have too many enemies within ourselves to ever unite for that one cause. History has always failed to keep them down and make it acceptable for our kind to walk free. I’m distracted by a gentle knock on my bedroom door, and I tune in, returning to reality and that familiar pang of heartache. My body slumped because my life feels like it’s ebbing away tonight. I sense Meadow outside my door and taste her deep and uncontrollable sadness even from this distance. I’m up. Come in. I link her, and she doesn’t hesitate to push the heavy oak door open quickly. She looks exhausted. Dark circles under her dull eyes, and I can te