Chapter 241 - The Birth of Death part 16

I wonder sometimes what we might have become if the Strix had bonded with a more civilized man. Would we be now a race of chupacabras, sucking the blood from goats, if the First One had been a goat herder instead of a Paleolithic cannibal?

How much of an influence was Khronos on the creatures that we have become?

It is an intriguing question, though ultimately a fruitless one to pursue, as our predatory nature has been long fixed upon our instincts. Still, I know that we can subsist on the blood of animals. I have done so for great swatches of time. We do not have to feed on our fellow man. We only do so because of the great satisfaction we derive from the act. It is a deed that gives us enormous physical pleasure, pleasure so consuming that even the ecstasy of orgasm pales in comparison to it.

If cannibalism had been taboo for Khronos and his people, as it is in modern human society, we might have become a very different race.

Vampirism is, after all, an act of cannibalism.

But as the saying goes, one cannot change the past.