The Long Night (for Bare Harold)

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When Saoirse looked around her home, she was sure that all was right in her world. She had built her home over the years, in an unassuming part of the forest, where no one would every bother to trespass in. A piece of modern architecture, she ensured that everything was made to her liking, from the tiles on the floor to the glass on the windows, money was no object. Besides, she had a lot of it to go around. Her money had been built over the years, from a good investment her and a few antiques there. It helps when you can sense the future.


One of the perks of being a vampire. Despite looking on 27 years old, she was in-fact a 200 years old vampire from Ireland. She had been turned after she was attacked by a vampire in her home city of Dublin. She never saw who attacked her, but she found herself changing in the days after the attack. She started getting little feelings about events and she lost any appetite for human food.



She remembered her first feeding. It was a random man she saw on the street. She did not kill him for his blood, instead knocking him out and taking as much as she needed. After a hundred or so years of doing that, she decided that she needed to disappear after a feeding took a wrong turn and the target managed to get away from her.


She had been in North America since then, allowing her a wider range to feed in. She had built this home in the same spot for years in order to throw off any suspicion. With a gated compound and laser sensor allowed her to know if anything came onto her property.


She decided to talk a walk in the city, wanting see if she could find any potential sources of easy food. As she walked, she paid more attention to scent of the people around her and not so much the walk. Soon she bumped into someone.


“Sorry I did not see you there.”

[Willow T Ferret]

The person that Saoirse bumped into was a young Hispanic-looking girl with black wavy hair. She was wearing a white shirt with a blue skirt. However both articles of clothing as well the girl herself had dirt stains on them. "It's fine." She said before getting up to her feet and starting to walk away. This was Carole, ten years old girl who resided in an orphanage after her parents were killed in a drunk driving incident. While she still stayed there she was picked on by most of the other girls there and couldn't do much to defend herself. This time she was roughly shoved to the ground several times and while one of the workers scolded them Carole decided to just leave and find somewhere to be, alone once again.

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Saoirse knew something was wrong just from the quick glimpse that she got of the girl. Her heighten senses allowed her to see old scars that where still in the process of fading, but healed just enough that they wouldn't be noticeable to the regular eye. She could smell the blood from old scabbed-over wounds, and she could plainly see the kid hadn't had a change of clothes in a while.


From all of that, she knew this kid was a runaway.


Despite her hunger, Saoirse refused to feed on children. Even a vampire needed to have standards. She looked young, but to a vampire everyone was young in comparison. When the kid turned and walked away, Saoirse called out to her,


"Hey kid, you okay? You wanna get something to eat?" she said hoping to get the kid's attention.

[Willow T Ferret]

Carole gotten a block away from the lady when she suddenly gotten the offer of getting something to eat. Despite getting some tiny things to eat here and there, it was two days since she had gotten a decent meal from anywhere. Realizing that this was a rare offer and that she wouldn't get another chance like this again Carole turns back to face her but kept looking towards the ground to avoid eye contact. "O-okay..." She accepted. At this point for food, she would eat anything that would be put in front of her.

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Saoirse smiled at the girl; happy that she decided to take up her offer. She knew a diner not to far from where they were. She used it in the past as a place to scout out potential prey.


The diner was one of those retro-styled places. Something that tried to capture the look of the 1950s, to mixed success. As she sat in one of the booths she watched the girl take a seat across from her. A waitress showed up and handed them both menu's. Saoirse could eat human food to a certain extent, but it never provided her any nutrition. Instead, trying to eat human food instead of blood would lead her to suffer from malnutrition.


"So can you tell me your name?" Saoirse asked the little girl.

[Willow T Ferret]

"My name is Carole." The girl answered as she continued to follow the grown lady towards the diner. Normally she wouldnt just accept some offer from someone she knew next to nothing about but at this moment she would do almost anything for something edible to eat. Passing the many people on the sidewalks she would keep her head down to keep them from seeing her face. She didn't like drawing attention. Eventually they arrived at the diner the woman mentioned and found themselves a table that wouldn't draw much attention to them. Carole sat down across from the woman while she waited for someone to take their order.

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"That is a beautiful name," replied Saoirse. The child seemed polite enough if a little dirty. She wondered why the girl would runaway from home. Soon the waitress came to take their order, she watched as the girl read through her order, while she simply ordered a milkshake.

"Mine is Saoirse," she told Carole, "If you don't mind me asking, but where are you parents?"