𝐊𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐀 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐘𝐄𝐑

-- and, like a generous god, I saved you. the screaming of kassandra bleeds into reality itself. her body loses form . . . and metastases into something truly beautiful.

-- you what oblivion ( really ) looked like. you remember the searing pain of absolution; the ceaseless bliss of the end; the tears as I robbed you of an ending; the final, final howls of time; the alien feeling of all the boundaries of your skin, bursting. you were ugly --

-- you scream you beg you die again and again. and then you wake up, and we do it again. do you remember, girl ? do you remember your last seconds ? I think you do. I know you do. right as my fangs close in on your face, you remember the way I tore my face off and showed --

so I hunt you for secondsminuteshoursdaysmonthsyearsdecadesmillenia. you never know how long. you don't have any power here. nobody is coming to save you. nobody even knows who you are. and every time you stumble and fall, you lose a bit more of yourself. I snap at your heels, --

-- find you, you'll learn what it means to be in agony.

-- your hunger is barely sated, living off rodents and small bugs. your thirst remedied by the pools of water. you aren't human. you aren't vampire. you're just an ugly, stupid little thing. and time never stops, not even out of sympathy. I am coming to get you. and when I --

-- these woods, somewhere. an angry, deadly force. it's big, it's endless, and it's coming for ( you ). so you start running. as fast as weak flesh will carry you. but flesh won't last forever. you've been in this forest for . . . how long ? days ? weeks ? years ? --

-- dying, becomes infested with a dark, inky black. it's not quite night or day, just bright enough that your ugly stupid eyes can't adjust to the time. but you aren't alone. your lungs begin to ache and burn, your senses are eroding, becoming dimmer. there's fire in --

-- terrifying and enough. you can't escape me forever girl, you can't. " let's play a game. " 𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗔 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘. your name is " kassandra ". you awaken shivering in a cold, dark forest. your clothes are ragged and torn, falling away in pathetic strips. the sky, --

her psionic energy crashes against kass like an engulfing tidal wave; cruelly, totally, without remorse. the way of death. safe taps kassandra on the shoulder. when the vampire turns, she screams, her wide, gaping maw like a black hole against the very soul, draining and --