Chapter 5: Gray New World

 

“Power is not given to you; you have to take it.”

 

-Beyonce

 

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“How charming,” Akhethotep deadpanned as she gazed out upon this gray new world she found herself in.

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Akhethotep predated The War by several thousand years and was the oldest being to ever walk the earth. She didn’t accidentally become the oldest vampire to ever exist, however. Akhethotep was as fearsome to face as she was beautiful to behold. And since rage had cannibalized her soul during her imprisonment, she was now as angry as she was lethal.

 

Akhethotep was originally turned by an Egyptian vampire named Sekhmet, or The Eye of Ra, around 2600 B.C.E. She had witnessed nearly every great human achievement and every great human tragedy since the building of Akhet Khufu, or the Great Pyramid of Giza. But the world she found herself in now was alien, shattered, and cold. She vowed to bend it to her will or break it in two.