Manasseh clutched the black-root ball at her hand to her chest as she stumbled herself through the street, the marbles on her step indicating her closeness to the mansion, as the vampire's sought of an end was finally, finally within sight.
The gate was a taunting metaphor for humanity's purge on vampires and for vampires' humiliation as a predator being cast out. Manasseh chuckled, finding it funny that she would retain rooms for sentimentality.
If only Alice had attacked sooner...would she have embarked on this useless journey for her clan's recovery? If the anomaly that is the hero's boundless strength was readied against her clans before she was born, would she still witness the rosery reds of her mother's coffin, here to release her people's corpses to rest a proper death, here to only awaken them again for her selfish desires not to 'waste her sacrifices'?
