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Behold: your hero for the duration, a perfect ilo-Saxon est you'll ever encounter My fangs are too small to be noticed unless I want theo forhuman blood

Of course, I don't need it that often And just how often I do need it, I don't know, because I've never put it to the test

I' I can take to the air I can hear people talking on the other side of the city or even the globe I can read minds; I can bind with spells

I'eless since 1789

Am I unique? By no means There are some twenty other vampires in the world of whom I know Half of these I know intimately; one half of those I love

Add to this twenty a good two hundred vagabonds and strangers of whooodabout in huuise

Men, wo can beco you into it, to suck out most of your blood, and then let you take it back, mixed with his or her own It's not all that simple; but if you survive, you'll live foreverWhile you're young, you'll thirst unbearably, probably have to kill each night By the time you're a thousand years old, you'll look and sound wise, even if you were a kid when you started, and you will drink and kill because you cannot resist it, whether you need it anymore or not

If you live longer than that, and soher, whiter, everthat you will go through rapid cycles of cruelty and kindness, insight and o et who you are

I e Only two hundred years old, I have been for various reasons granted the strength of the ancients I have a modern sensibility but a dead aristocrat's impeccable taste I know exactly who I am I am rich I am beautiful I can seeand to dance

What do I do? Anything that I please

Think about it Is it enough to make you want to read my story?

Have you perhaps read my stories of the vampires before?

Here's the catch: it doesn't matter here that I'iven, likeFrench-accented voice and graceful way of sauntering down the street It coe But what happened here could have happened to a hu; indeed, it surely has happened to huain

We have souls, you and I