Chapter 134 - Ilio part 1

"With child...?" Lukas interrupted. "I thought you said that vampires were impotent."

"Not impotent," I corrected him. "Sterile. There is a difference."

"You can fuck. You're just shooting blanks, right?" Lukas grinned.

"Vulgar as always, but yes. Our seed is as lifeless as the rest of the human cells in our bodies, incapable of striking the spark of life. A vampire is really only the transmogrified host of the parasite which dwells within him. A means to an end for the organism we vampires call the Strix. We function only to feed its hunger, and to carry out its natural desire to reproduce, which we do by spreading the vampiric curse to others."

"So how did…?" Lukas's voice trailed off, then his eyebrows shot up. "Oh!"

"Yes. Ilio, my adopted son, mated with a mortal female only once before he was made into a vampire. When we were visited by the Neirie sisters in the village of the Oombai."

Lukas snorted. "The kid must have been quite a marksman."

I nodded with a smile. "Bullseye."