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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:19:58 GMT
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- Over the remaining few days I wrapped up loose ends around the
- house and readied myself to travel to California. On Friday evening I
- woke just as the last sliver of sun had slipped behind the wooded
- slopes to the west. I dressed rapidly and heated a pint in the
- microwave to tide me over until I got to California. Making a face, I
- downed the thick, red liquid and felt the eternal craving subside a
- bit. I drove to the airport and met my chartered flight aboard the
- private jet I had arranged. This was the fastest way to get across the
- country. Sometimes I traveled commercial so I could watch people but
- other times I didn't want to bother and arranged for private flights,
- like tonight.
-
- We left the Indianapolis airport and headed westward, rising
- through the layers of cloud until we speeded along high above the
- earth. I relaxed in my plush seat and idly straightened a metal lever
- beside the seat that had been bent. This physical strength I possessed
- was many times that of mortal man. The reason for this was something I
- had discovered a few years ago. My lifespan gave me ample opportunity
- to become an expert in about any given field of science I wanted to
- research. Medicine was one I was well versed in.
-
- About a decade ago, I had taken tissue, blood and bone
- samples from myself and examined them thoroughly. I found that the
- very substances of my body were radically denser in mass then mortal
- bodies. My bones were the same relative size but the bone itself was
- something different, something more along the lines of a flexible
- steel. Strange things circulated in my body and the catalyst that made
- it all work was human blood. My muscle tissue was a substance much
- stronger and flexible than human muscle and although I only stood
- approximately six feet tall and had a fairly muscular build, I weighed
- about 100 pounds more than I would have had I been mortal.
-
- This alone was not sufficient to explain the vast increases in
- speed and strength. When I conducted a bio-electrical analysis I
- discovered that every molecule of my body was surrounded by a
- bio-electromagnetic field that was over a 100 times more intense than
- that of mortals. That might explain why canines can sense my proximity
- and undoubtably adds a "mystical" force that enhances my already
- superior body.
-
- I had then decided to discover if a fledgling vampire
- possessed the same structure as I did. I hunted for a long time and
- finally found a young one feasting in a dark alley in a filthy city.
- She had fled from me, terrified by the power she felt radiating from
- me but I had caught her easily and taken her to my lab where I
- extracted samples of her various bodily substances and then destroyed
- her in a blazing kiln. I rarely allowed fledglings to live when I
- found them. They are usually the ones that give vampires a bad name.
- They often eat sloppily and arouse terror among the humans around
- them. Her tissues were similar to mine but not nearly developed. This
- in itself substantiated my belief that over time a vampire increases
- in, at least, physical power.
-
- All of these differences, the bone, muscle, ligament
- structures combined to make me superhumanly strong and fast. My senses
- were 10 times more acute than that of a normal human and I could live
- possible forever as long as my mind remained sane. That was the
- biggest killer of vampires, insanity. If a vampire survived the first
- hundred years of non-life it then had to battle the ravages of time
- itself. Most didn't make it. They were unable to cope with the
- changing world or the non-changing selves. I found my salvation
- through humanity itself. Watching and learning and ever studying was
- what kept me ever young.
-
- The only price we had to pay for all these benefits was the
- need to consume blood, to be radically opposed to humankind, and the
- fact that we never could gaze upon the orb of the sun. We were
- creatures of night, of dark dreams and fantasy. I love the night and
- am very much at home in the darkest place. But there are times where I
- yearn for the golden sun streaming down over a rolling blue sea, the
- beams of light sparkling off the waves and soft, warm breezes
- caressing my body. This is forever forbidden me...I must remain
- content with the night. Oh, I am an early awakener for a vampire. Some
- cannot arise until it is full dark out and I am able to wake and move
- freely once the sun itself has gone below the horizon. In zones of
- long twilight I can experience day, of a sorts.
-
- My musings have kept me company and I feel a surge of
- surprised excitement as the pilot announces our incipient arrival in
- San Francisco. I smile ferally as I think of the prowl tonight within
- the sprawling heap of humanity. I will feed well tonight before I head
- south to my home in the cliffs overlooking the ocean.
-
- <Steven>
-