Always

I always have been and I always will be. I was there when Julius Cesar was killed, when the French Revolution started and ended, and on the conquest to America. I am all throughout history. I am as old as time, I don't know why or how. I have watched life end and begin, not only with death and birth but awakening to reality.

I am not God. I am not special in any way. I was there for all of history but I had no impact on it. I was a slave in Rome when Cesar was killed. I fled the scene in France before anything could truly happen. When we got to America I contributed what I could but nothing changed.

I have contributed something to history, stories and folklore. People have been telling stories about me for centuries. They call me βρυκόλακας, Bampira, Xortdan, or Vampire.

They tell stories about a pale creature that drinks blood and that lives forever. In the beginning I didn't know they were about me, but eventually I caught on. I was the only thing that lived forever, if there were others I would have found them by now.

I have been here for so long, I have watched humans work together build each other up and create wonderful things, and just destroy it all to get power. I try not to dwell in the past because there is so much of it.

I can't help to think of the future. Will there be a future for me after the humans die out? My years don't pass as theirs do, their lives are so short and only up until recently have people been living close to a century. Time is something humans developed to make their lives seem shorter, they measure in planet rotation. When they should be measuring their lives in greatness.

My future will be endless, a never ending blip in the history of everything.