Undead Children

I have over a century of sons & daughters, which may seem a lot but my life is many centuries long. Some live with my King & I, however many have “flown the coup” as I believe you humans are fond of saying. I am not altogether sure I understand why you say this as I have never seen a human that either lives in a coup nor has wings.

We vampires can fly, in fact we can soar to the milky way & glide around our mother earth from a very young age.

Our children are taught well; to respect themselves & others, to be accepting of all…no matter of race or breed, to never feed without the blessing of the donor & to be loyal to liege & family. Most of our children learn well, however some rebel as youngsters are wanton to do.

The rebel child can be lost to us, for they feel the lust of power & the greed of warm blood upon their lips. Their need grows bigger & swells, until larger than the lessons they have learnt. They must fly, spread their wings, leave the comfort of their parents’ dungeons & smear their lack of understanding throughout the world.

It is a vampire mother’s worst nightmare. The havoc they can reap amongst the weak & the sinners is immense & leaves blood, tears & anguish in its very wake. They are young but believe they are mature. They are dim-witted but believe they are wise & all knowing. They are independent & have lost the understanding of the need for family. Worst of all, they have turned their back on their mother’s love, left her to watch them stumble & fall as they experience life by themselves.

Their mother is wise for she knows she can fail, that she is not infallible. It is the support of her family that makes her the mother & the Queen that she has become. She prays & hopes that her young ones will also recognize the need for council from others, however has seen with her own eyes & heard with her own ears, that they believe in their own rulings & do not compromise their doings. For they are leaders & all MUST follow.

In amongst this swamp of power they can loose themselves to the thirst. Left unchecked they will turn beast & forever be hunting for their next meal. For the metalic taste of blood upon their tongue & the victory of the next soul they may take into their possession. They scavenge amongst the sewers & the dumps, drink blood contaminated by germs & disease & swallow souls that are past their use by date.

This in turn makes our children each day a little more feral, until we must call out the werewolves to bring them back into the fold & place them in isolation to purify their blood once more.

So you see my human friends vampire children are just as annoying & condescending as human children can be…however mine are undead for all eternity.