Individuals: Part 2

There are things in this world that one cannot explain. Even if they wanted to they would not have the technology or resources and as such goes, we had even less a century ago. Several centuries ago we couldn't even determine accurately the living from the dead. Lions and tigers and bears are the least of your "Oh mys" my dear friends...

Creatures of all shapes and sizes inhabit this place. We share only a few things in common, the will to survive, the will to procreate and the resources this home has to offer. Beyond that we all differ as night and day. Too many things still cannot be explained and we leave things to chance and faith. I am lacking in neither though I don't share the same on both as most of you. I cannot, and be who I am, as what was given me can never be took back and I myself did nothing to acquire this "gift." A lot of colleagues want what I have and I have spent almost all my days of the last four decades wanting to be like them and fit in. Now none of that matters. I am here to educate and to open the eyes of those that were closed for far too long because you cannot disprove the truth.

To most of the world I am labeled "vampire" and to half of them I am called a fake or fraud as half are non-believers, at least out in the open anyways. In the native tongue of my species we are called "Wamphyri," pronounced (wom-free), and we are a different species of man. Evolution was at work decades and centuries ago and allowed for a species to come forth that was a predominantly night species. This is a fact. No one person is sure of what need to have a nightwalker amongst men existed but I am willing to bring to conjecture that we went back further than most want to dare believe. Our kind existed not of evil deeds done dirt cheap but because at one time the earth was awash in darkness and the need arose for my kind to exist. Now with our star bringing us light daily with green grasses to grow as food for the masses, the need for such an individual mostly has died out excepting the times when the gene ekes itself from the pool of life. We know this planet was in darkness during the period before our Ice Age as the dinosaurs died out and it was speculated that a comet or some other disaster like a solar flare had killed off the lesser creatures forcing them, the dinosaurs, to eat one another and die off. Whatever the truth be to how my kind came into existence we are here and always have been. Science has finally caught up to identifying us as a species though humanity still abhors us and labels us a "sub"(meaning beneath)species. What science cannot do is cure anymore than they can take the spots off of a leopard but it has afforded me a second chance as I was staring down the barrel of a shot gun loaded with liver failure and bone marrow disease.

I have things to tell and it is a slow process for me to speak as I am still forming my own opinions on the matter. Some of you will fallow and fall along the way for the truth is a heavy bag to haul around. I will do my best to let you in on a few good secrets and a few good lies along the way, of this I promise. First of all, I and my kind are not immortal. Exactly the opposite as we have a much shorter lifespan than most humanoid species. Because of our dietary needs and the exposure, that cannot be avoided, to the sun we don't fair well in years. There are older survivors but only with the help of modern science and its mistakes do they get that luck. Science is fallible in that it serves one species, man. Human, daywalking, briefcase carrying, car driving, burger eating man. I am still poked and prodded into being forced to live by their parameters everyday as no government facility is open to the public during night time hours, excepting jails (chuckles), nor any church or bank or doctor's office. Most professional services run a nine-to-five day or something that resembles that structure. I am not designed for that life.

The second most important fact that would surprise most of you is our diet. As the myths and tales go we are accused of imbibing human blood and even human flesh. This often amuses me and is one of the myths that I have always known to be the most inaccurate. We are able to do so but not one person of my kin has ever done this. It is considered dirty and unclean for us to eat our cousins just as dirty it would be for a human to do so, though there have been your kind who have done such a thing. My great grandfather never "took" of a human into him. He merely beheaded his kills and posted them as warning to those who would harm him and his! As for our dietary needs some of the myth is true. We do require blood. I eat raw meat, flesh. I am a trained chef and able to prepare the food to which I and others like me can eat-safely. We can be harmed by the same toxins and bacteria as you so it is crucial to know the difference between what is food or fodder. We do not need to eat more than once or twice a week and most of us suffer severe digestive repercussions when not eating as we were designed. My perfect diet consists of simple sugars, caffeine, alcohol and raw meat. I will eat breads and cheeses and even vegetables. I was taught to by the human family and environment I was born into, and even love to eat such things but my body trained me as to what it can tolerate. I stopped eating some fifteen years ago, slowly, to the point of just sucking in tea and eating hard candies and chocolat for energy. I was invincible! And I would eat 2-3 times a week a meal consisting of raw meat and spinach or dark greens by the truckloads!

What you know and what is real are always different until shown the way...someone must guide them in the dark to a safe haven and that is the point of my existence only now, I am defined by guiding the ignorant from their darkness into the light of truth. Today I will close with this, simply I eat to live and live to eat. I want to survive and be happy and I want, most of all, my child to live and be happy. She is every bit as much of what I am as my body, though human by sight, was not hospitable for her seven other would-be siblings. I am blessed in the know of them and having her for had she not been wamphyrii too I would have no progeny, no legacy. Lobo is my legacy. ~mobe's love to you ALL and her all to her loves! **to be continued...