Masks are falling off.
What´s happened to her?
Can´t she bear it?
The red gown is for the Initiated Vampire Queen and she seems to be falling.
She is too young.
Many entered the club as couples, together bound for eternal life they decided to go down this path, sometimes even paid for it with money. Our lives were shorter than myth would have it. It´s actually just like Anne Rice wrote in her novels… it was rare to come across a vampire over 200 years old. Most didn’t even make it to one hundred.
It was hard.
Between keeping up the conspiracy, blood lust, which often turned murderous, relationships with other vampires, reminiscence of former lives and finding new meaning, and will to live the odds were just stacked against longevity in the 1700s. Those who did make it longest kept a very low profile and lead ordinary lives, as similar to humans as possible, never drawing attention to themselves. They lived like humans, with special dietary needs, and found discreet ways how to fulfill them. They lived alone. Self-contained.
