[It's not easy to retell, but he doesn't mind it. No, he wouldn't have offered otherwise.
Winter's earned this tale by now. And for once, it's a blessing to be a bat -- perhaps some of the harder bits to relay will be spoken more easily knowing that his expressions can't be so straightforwardly read.]
Suppose we should start at the beginning, then. After I was turned, I was practically enslaved. There was no running from him, no escape. A vampire spawn is literally under the thrall of their master. [That was no metaphor.] Anything he willed, I would have no choice but to do. No manner of willpower could break me free, and the punishment for even trying would have been... severe.
[He feels the anger coiling up, the disgust. Even free of that influence, it will have left its mark for many years to come.]
And under his service, I spent two centuries luring back poor, witless souls to his palace. For the sake of his own meals, or so I thought at the time. In the meanwhile, I was only ever permitted to feed on rodents and insects.
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Winter's earned this tale by now. And for once, it's a blessing to be a bat -- perhaps some of the harder bits to relay will be spoken more easily knowing that his expressions can't be so straightforwardly read.]
Suppose we should start at the beginning, then. After I was turned, I was practically enslaved. There was no running from him, no escape. A vampire spawn is literally under the thrall of their master. [That was no metaphor.] Anything he willed, I would have no choice but to do. No manner of willpower could break me free, and the punishment for even trying would have been... severe.
[He feels the anger coiling up, the disgust. Even free of that influence, it will have left its mark for many years to come.]
And under his service, I spent two centuries luring back poor, witless souls to his palace. For the sake of his own meals, or so I thought at the time. In the meanwhile, I was only ever permitted to feed on rodents and insects.