Prepare for a journey as Gabriel,a good-spirited vampire,tells his coming of age story.
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As I stood at the foot of this cathedral ... my cathedral, I was broken. Anything and everything that was left of me being human was shattered and ultimately obliterated .Where was my guilt? Where was my sorrow? Where was my conscience? All of these things had been absent from me for some time but not until this very moment had it come to my realization that It was truly gone. What have I become? Why have I done this? All of these questions racing through my mind like a silver bullet through glass, but I could not answer them. I was still numb, still in disbelief that I had just consumed my one and possibly only love. Elise. Her blood, her precious blood had been dripping from my lips and staining the pavement below me. How could I, She was so soft, so precious, so human. The rain had begun to pour heavier and the clouds became extremely darker, and just as the skies had begun to cry, so had I. Tear after tear fell down my cheek and slowly began to wash the ground. Am I human? Am I a vampire? I do not truly know.So then I proceeded into the cathedral with hope that I could reconcile with someone, anyone, and repent these unbearable sins of mine. I walked up the few stairs outside the cathedral and placed my hand on the door. I was hesitant and I was hesitant because I didn’t know if I was ready for this. But all that didn’t matter, the one person in my life that actually was of any importance had perished at my own hands, so whether I was ready or not it didn’t matter because I was doing this for her. I entered the cathedral with pain in my heart and faith in my mind and it was just as I remembered it, cold, very cold and empty. |