Ficlet | Your Faves As Vampires | The Strange Case of Starship Iris

The hit sent Arkady tumbling to the ground. She shifted her weight in a well-practiced movement, rolling her back across the ground to land in a half-kneeling position. Stake was still in her hand, thankfully.

Arkady looked up at her cloaked opponent. They were looming over her, a predatory grin slowly widening on their face. Not a vampire in a blood frenzy. She didn’t recognize them but that didn’t mean anything, not with the intel she’d gathered on the clan’s ranks growing.

Shit, she wasn’t dying alone in the woods to some newbie vampire. They weren’t lunging for the kill yet though, content to stare silently and watch what she would do. Probably liked to play with their food.
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