The Vampire came, and the men of the city were powerless to stop him. There was nothing in them that was strong enough to resist his influence, much less his power.
They had grown weak, distant from one another. He wriggled in through the cracks and took what he wanted, which was everything.
The men hid behind symbols that stood for nothing now but their own avarice, carrying mystical weapons that were mere superstition.
From his new throne he laughed at the weakness of men. But when he called their women to him, they had stakes hidden behind their backs.
“Study of a Vampire Bat” by Samuel Howitt shared under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
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