No one really talks about God anymore. I’m not surprised. My mother used to tell me that God has (had?) a plan for everyone, but I started finding that even tougher to believe once the Blighted came into being. Either there is no God, or his plan is that we’re all to suffer and die after a pointless existence of running and hiding. Because that’s what we do right now; it’s what we’ve always done.
The vampires have been around since before I was born. Society has grown used to them and we’ve found ways to coexist about as peacefully as we could, though the world would be better without them. They are just like us, aside from their need of our flesh for sustenance. I guess
vampire is kind of a misnomer since they don’t drink our blood; they eat the muscles in our bodies. The theories on how they came about vary, from broken evolution to a medical experiment gone wrong. Some even think that they’ve always been here but their numbers were too few to actually notice. Whatever it is, their population has grown substantially since they first went public and our numbers have been dwindling since. We tried to contain them and the government made concentration camps for them. It was then that the rebellion happened and they started biting and infecting anyone they could. History repeats itself is a popular
saying, and it seems that we didn’t realize that containment was a bad idea from the World Wars of earlier generations. But hey, the government PR machine called them "communities" to sound friendlier. I remember back when we had electricity seeing the live feed on television when they broke out and started biting all they could. Many were shot, but the wave of anger from them washed over the bullets in their resolve for revenge. In their spite of being caged, they shared the horror with everyone they could, especially those that treated them as less than human in the camps.
All it took was a simple bite without death and the bitten would eventually become a vampire. They’ve since calmed down and do not bite without killing, but there are lingering hostilities between us and them.
"The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up."
My mother used this passage from the Bible as justification for the world we live in.
"The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces; from heaven He
will thunder against them. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth."
That one, too. She also referred to that one a lot, and that’s where I
got my name: Samuel. Samuel, a permanent emblem of God’s work and
his plan for us all. God, the bringer of hope and redemption, the creator of
a now-wasted world and misery
The vampires have been around since before I was born. Society has grown used to them and we’ve found ways to coexist about as peacefully as we could, though the world would be better without them. They are just like us, aside from their need of our flesh for sustenance. I guess
vampire is kind of a misnomer since they don’t drink our blood; they eat the muscles in our bodies. The theories on how they came about vary, from broken evolution to a medical experiment gone wrong. Some even think that they’ve always been here but their numbers were too few to actually notice. Whatever it is, their population has grown substantially since they first went public and our numbers have been dwindling since. We tried to contain them and the government made concentration camps for them. It was then that the rebellion happened and they started biting and infecting anyone they could. History repeats itself is a popular
saying, and it seems that we didn’t realize that containment was a bad idea from the World Wars of earlier generations. But hey, the government PR machine called them "communities" to sound friendlier. I remember back when we had electricity seeing the live feed on television when they broke out and started biting all they could. Many were shot, but the wave of anger from them washed over the bullets in their resolve for revenge. In their spite of being caged, they shared the horror with everyone they could, especially those that treated them as less than human in the camps.
All it took was a simple bite without death and the bitten would eventually become a vampire. They’ve since calmed down and do not bite without killing, but there are lingering hostilities between us and them.
"The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up."
My mother used this passage from the Bible as justification for the world we live in.
"The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces; from heaven He
will thunder against them. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth."
That one, too. She also referred to that one a lot, and that’s where I
got my name: Samuel. Samuel, a permanent emblem of God’s work and
his plan for us all. God, the bringer of hope and redemption, the creator of
a now-wasted world and misery
