Into the Halls Of The Vampire Cult

The stench of ages permeated every inch of the darkness threatening to choke the very life from me and seeming, almost to muffle the light of the torch. When I discovered that damned doorway, I should have walked away. I should have. But I didn't, and now here I am, waist deep in the waste of a millennia of sacrifice. Maybe more. Time is, after all, mere speculation...

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I don't know why I followed her. Curiosity? An urge to help? A sense of impending doom? She looked lost. Confused. Even a little frightened, and for an elderly person, wandering the streets in such a state at an odd hour, this could easily point to Alzheimer's, or even dementia. Call it concern, I guess, but still, I cannot for the life of me figure out why she would enter that doorway, nor why I would have the complete lack of sense to pursue when I clearly could not have known whether she truly entered into the darkness beyond, or merely continued on the wooded path, into the thickening mists. But she did come this way, and when I finally came upon her body, lying motionless in the darkness and the glow of the torch crept slowly over her, a deep, primal horror began to fill my innards. The bites were clearly visible through the torn fragments of her flowery garments. Blood streamed forth still, but the flow followed no true form, not that of an elderly lady who likes her morning strolls, not that of, well anything I could fathom. Her body was not just torn. It was broken. No, shattered. As though fell from heights imagined only in a bustling metropolis where businessmen dive when the stocks do, though the ceiling in the claustrophobic room I now found myself in was easily scorched by the torch should I hold it too high, and with no openings, she could not possibly have fallen here, and even as the horror grew inside me, out of the corner of my eye I caught a glint, as the sound of a bag of chips being crushed filled the constricting air, and her shattered body began to forcibly reform....

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