Well... that's not entirely a bad thing, having no vampires.
[Her lips curve, watching him relax. He seemed to enjoy the sun, while she huddled in the shade offered by the tree, still cool despite the warmth of the day.]
An extermination war? [Her brow furrows.] There's... It's been...
[She sighs and shifts, turning her body a little towards him.]
About twenty years ago, I was in Sydney and to the north, flash of light, shock wave of heat that blows out nearly every bit of glass in the city. People think it's a bomb, nuclear except no mushroom cloud, no sudden vaporising. Just light then, the wave and then all the power goes out. Electronics are fried.
And you'd think that'd be bad enough except things start coming out of the darkness, as if the explosion had woken them up.
We called them the Slaugh and it's rather apt if you know your faerie folklore.
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[Her lips curve, watching him relax. He seemed to enjoy the sun, while she huddled in the shade offered by the tree, still cool despite the warmth of the day.]
An extermination war? [Her brow furrows.] There's... It's been...
[She sighs and shifts, turning her body a little towards him.]
About twenty years ago, I was in Sydney and to the north, flash of light, shock wave of heat that blows out nearly every bit of glass in the city. People think it's a bomb, nuclear except no mushroom cloud, no sudden vaporising. Just light then, the wave and then all the power goes out. Electronics are fried.
And you'd think that'd be bad enough except things start coming out of the darkness, as if the explosion had woken them up.
We called them the Slaugh and it's rather apt if you know your faerie folklore.
Sound familiar?