Evanescence: Fading From Deception

Introduction

Six months ago I was human. Three months ago I died. Today, I can live forever.

My human life. Gone. Yet unlike other people, the humans, I have the luxury of keeping my body and its youthful ambitions. My soul now resides inside the belly of a beast, belonging to the monster. A beast in which is only familiar in storybooks, folklore, and movies. A beast that has no need to count days, no need to worry about being prey because it is the ultimate predator, nor the need to count the hands on a watch. They do exist. They are real, rather, we are real.

I am not someone you would call a witness. I wouldn't even consider myself a victim nor do I regret what I have become. Least to say, it wasn't accidental. It was predestined. My destiny in which I am eternally grateful. I no longer question who I am..or what I am for that matter. I am no longer afraid of what my future holds. I no longer look for answers or clues to what makes me me. I am Evan Mercil; not human, but the "late-blooming vampire."

My human life in Utica, NY lasted a happy seventeen years. My mother, Sarah Marsh, had been the only family I had known. I had no recollection of a father or a dominant male figure at an early age, but Sarah was able to provide me with the proper necessities in which life was fair. I am completely satisfied with the life, human life, that she had been able to give me. But I can remember three months ago, my life drastically changed and those questions were answered.

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