Bleeding Breeding

By Бранвена Ллирска

Erkial is not quite human. Or rather, not really human at all. She belongs to the ancient winged vampire race of the Lamashtu. Noedes Bel is a skald famous throughout the Gallo-Roman Empire of the 27th century, but all Erkial needs from him is his blood and his genes. And surely it shouldn't bother her that a member of the inferior human race will die in the process of extracting the necessary material. But as for him, how does he feel about it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Бранвена Ллирска
• Release date: Jan 23, 2024
• ISBN: 9798215653852

Бранвена Ллирска

Писатель-фантаст, блогер-фольклорист, режиссер-недоучка. Циник, скептик, агностик, эгоист, пантеист, хронический дилетант. Гражданин Вселенной. Без определенной этническо-культурной и гендерной самоидентификации.Дышу кельтикой, живу в вымышленных мирах, приношу жертвы языческим богам. Расшатываю устои, переоцениваю ценности.

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You see, the gods are really nothing more than an abstraction. Fortunately, humanity has matured beyond the age of adolescence, when all nonsense is taken for granted. Notice I do not say infantile. Children are far from being so naive. Contrariwise, they are the ones who see the world as it really is. Without filters. Without... Without... the inebriated orator waved his hand expressively in front of his face, imitating something like a waving curtain. Without all this rubbish, this static noise, this cultural fallout. But when a human specimen begins to grow up, the very muddy suspension of other people's beliefs begins to settle on him, sticking like a burr here and there, digging into his very bowels...

Erkial smothered a yawn and lazily dipped a slice of bitter orange into her chalice of vintage Samian wine, quite good, but certainly not as old as Rome, because then it would be almost three thousand years old. According to their contract, it was she who was supposed to entertain the landlord with conversation. However, the famous Celtae skald, known throughout the Gallo-Roman Empire as Noedes Bel, was getting outrageously carried away, especially after his second keg of beer, as he'd apparently finished the first one before her arrival.

Well, in this case, how would you explain why it is exactly the youth who have such a strong addiction to rebellion? she inquired.

Noedes choked on the dark northern brew