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Authors: Katie Salidas
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I screwed up my face, confused as always by Nicholas’s cryptic ways of explaining things. Did that mean he thought a vampire dropped it off, or that this box had something to do with vampires in general?
Nicholas suddenly looked more annoyed than worried. “Thanatos is the Greek god of death, Alyssa. That symbol is like a calling card.”
“Wait a second,” Fallon interrupted. “Hades is the god of the underworld.”
Nicholas smiled revealing his fangs. “Correct. Two points to the little human. Perhaps you could teach your friend here a thing or two.” He gave me a short sneer. “Hades is the ruler of the underworld, but Thanatos is the bringer of death. He is the one to deliver the spirits to Hades.”
“So are you trying to tell me the gods are real? And sending us warnings?” I asked.
“In my day, we believed the gods were as real as your next door neighbor. I of course have never met one, but that does not negate the possibility that they might have some physical form. Remember, we were supposedly born of the Keres, grandchildren of the great Titan goddess Nyx.”
I nodded, remembering Lysander recount of the legend of our kind. Vampires were the offspring of the Keres, who were daughters of Nyx, Goddess of the night. The Keres were extremely bloodthirsty creatures who swarmed battled fields to drink the blood of fallen soldiers. They finished off the dying soldiers so their souls could pass on to the underworld. According to Lysander’s story, one of the Keres had mated with a dying man and the first vampire had been born of that union. Immortal, like its mother, the new creation carried an insatiable bloodlust but took on the form and build of its human father. Nyx did not wish the new creation destroyed and tried to hide it from the world. She cursed it to only be able to roam the night, where she could watch over it.
The lights in the room flickered for a moment. Both Fallon and I exchanged worried looks. Nicholas’ eyes narrowed. He glanced from me, to Fallon, then to the box in his hands.
“Whatever this thing represents—” Nicholas held up the box, “—it’s very old. We will need to bring this to Lysander’s attention as soon as he returns.”
“We probably should have done that before we opened it.” I shivered as the words left my lips. Dread sank down into the pit of my stomach.
Fallon’s computer beeped. The twangy, mechanical sound startled me from my thoughts. When I looked over, it was in the process of rebooting. The operating system splash screen flashed on the monitor.
Fallon scooted into the desk chair. “Why the heck did it do that?” She typed in the password as soon as the dialogue box came up on screen. “Something strange is going on here.”
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About the Author
The youngest of four children, Katie has always had a desire to entertain. Since, early childhood, she's dreamed up fantastical characters and scribbled them into pages of various journals and notebooks. Taking an interest in vampires at an early age, she devoured every book, featuring those blood sucking creatures, in any genre she could find. She claims that, of all the monsters out there, vampires had always been the most interesting.
It was only natural that a love of reading about vampires, and a love of writing, turned into a desire to write her own stories.
A Las Vegas native, having grown up in the famed City of Sin, Katie loves to feature it as a recurring setting for many of her stories.
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