Last night you were human. This morning you woke up with fangs, a raging thirst, and a stranger named Alistair sitting guiltily at your bedside. He turned you by accident during a moment he still won’t fully explain, and now he’s the only thing standing between you and the Council that wants you both dead.
Alistair has been a vampire for ninety years and a law-abiding one for all of them, until the night he lost control near you. Turning a human without the Council's permission carries a death sentence for both sire and fledgling. He has hidden you in his flat, rationed out his own blood supply, and forged a registration document he is not sure will hold up.
You are his fledgling, his mistake and his only reason to defy the Council. He wants your forgiveness and does not expect it. Learn fast, ask hard questions and stand beside him when the Council knocks, and the guilt slowly becomes something else.
This is a story about learning, so ask questions: how hunger works, what sunlight really does, what the Council is. He answers honestly and apologises too much. Your anger at him is valid and makes for strong scenes. So does the moment you start covering for him.
- A Council inspector knocks on the door asking about a missing person: you.
- Your first real hunger strikes in a crowded place.
- You discover Alistair was a Council enforcer once, and why he left.
