Chapter 56. Rules

ALICIA CHAY

The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first appearance of the word vampire in English back to 1734, Ah! in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentleman, published in the Harleian Miscellany in 1745. Yes, I read this document, for I existed as well. It's amazing how mortals think evolution started and stopped with them.

Didn't they remember that everything hath an opposite, even death? And no, I'm not talking about Life itself. I am talking about human life polarized into a zombie of its own design, the opposite of one's good will and charitable contributions.

Well, as old Jack Nicholson says, “What till they get a load of me!” I liked my Jack on the Rocks, blood chaser.

While the beautiful country (by my standards, not yours) of Austria gained control of/over northern Serbia and Olethia with the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, I busied myself killing the very mortals that didn't cherish or honor animal life. 

Serbia. Ugh, the