"They are a failed lab experiment!"
Andrew's voice cut through the chaos, his eyes snapping toward the swarm of disfigured vampires.
"Do any of you have the power to see their Vitalis Core?"
"Failed experiment…"
David's gaze softened with horror as it fell upon the creatures: small, twisted shapes that once resembled children.
"What kind of atrocity did they do to them?"
Their fury wasn't born merely from fear that David's daughter might share their fate, it came from the truth that every one of these broken beings was no older than ten.
"What kind of monsters could do this?"
David's hands trembled before curling into fists.
The vampires shrieked and lunged. Their bodies split grotesquely, limbs tearing and reforming into distorted copies, faces melting into each other like wax left in fire.
The air thickened with the stench of iron, blood, and decay. The ground pulsed beneath their feet, slick with black ichor.
