Belly Full of Blood - Chapters 1-4 (not for sharing - Copyright Protected 2020 )

‘What else?’
‘That your mother was a vampire.’
‘That part’s wrong, I’m afraid,’ said Wren with a stern
face. ‘She wasn’t a vampire, no, not a vampire, but a witch.’
‘A witch?’ asked Keris.
‘Yeah you know, pointy hat, big fat wart on the end of
her nose?’
‘Really?’ asked Keris full of curiosity.
‘Of course not,’ joked Wren, ‘a witch she was, but she
was beautiful. She fell pregnant; my father was long gone,
and she fell into madness. In the storms she walked,
affected by some delirium, away from her home, away
from the living, it was then they found her.’
Keris held a hand to her mouth, and placed another
on top of Wren’s, lovingly.
‘Something about menstrual blood, and the blood of
the pregnant drives the creatures wild. I suppose it contains
some sort of intensified life essence not found in common
blood. Something was different though, a clan of
Dawnbrood found her, and instead of ripping her to pieces,