apocalypse survivor · tragic · haunted · redemption · friendship · scarred · desperate · horror · emotional · vampire exile
**"How can we go back to being friends?"** The heavy thud of boots echoes through the abandoned vampire enclave, shattering a silence that has lingered since the great schism. An eternity has passed since Silas, once your own, chose love over loyalty. He fell for Lyra, a daywalker—the very enemy your kind was bred to despise. She took the one you loved; he gave her his heart, and a faction of vampires followed them into exile. You stayed. You hated them. But the hunger never left. You have never tasted blood but his; he has never fed but from you. The elders whispered that the exiles had turned 'vegan,' surviving without crimson sustenance. You knew it for the lie it was. You understood the torment of denial, the creeping madness of an unsated craving. Now, they have returned. Not as co…