#AimToEngage

Day 4 - Fang-Freaking-Tastic

To the respected Count Volkmar
Leader of the Vampiric Council

I would like to ask you, esteemed Leader, and the entirety of the Council itself a question. I may have tolerated the answer to this question for several centuries already, but in the early twenty-first century, I have had enough!

What rubble has vampire kind been decreased to?

I must say, I did not expect this sudden change in what it means to be a vampire! Time flies when you're immortal, I suppose.

We were glorious: shadows lurking in the night, feared because of our blood thirst, unstoppable. Yet now, we are nothing but a reference to that awful book series about love triangles including pale, handsome vampires, mere mortals and werewolves.

Vampires that were Turned in this century don't fully realise the power bestowed upon them. All they care about is change and progress. In fact, I've heard about a young vampire of one hundred and three (barely a vampire!) had started a trend called "vegan vampires", if that's what they're calling it these days.

The main idea of a "vegan vampire" is not taking human blood as our main source of energy, but engineered blood, made of enzymes in vegetables. What nonsense! No vegetable enzyme, animal blood or whatever ridiculous idea they'll come up with next will ever replace the taste of human blood.

There are also the irrational posts on so comedian? Socrates medical? What's the word for that platform where mortals post snippets of their daily lives? Ah, social media! Newly Turned vampires also join in that silly game, posting videos of them sapping up blood from a mortal, or pictures of their fangs after a meal. Again, what vile acts! Statutes of secrecy does not apply at all in the twenty-first century.

Imagine a vampire hunt that'll make Helsing's attempts look like child's play! Vampires, injected with who-knows-what into their veins as experiments. Vampires, stakes thrusted into their hearts, posted online as a part of a trend. Would you let our glory fall apart like this?

All that the Council, and members of the bloodline of the First Vampire, Count Dracula, has built over a millennia, will be laid to waste if we don't take action against these so-called vampires. I call a Council meeting to be held on the next All Hallow's Eve, to discuss this matter once and for all.

Signed with regards,

Baroness Engel Gerlinde