Vampire Scriptures: The Girl

Before she was Sanctuary, she was only a girl.A happy little thing with stars in her eyes and syrup on her fingertips from pancake mornings shared with her siblings. Summers smelled like saltwater and sunscreen, like her older brother's dreams etched into his notebook.The world was still simple and safe back then.She was only a girl.She never thought too hard about the strange looks her father gave her; nor the mud-caked work boots her mother left by the door stained with something darker than dirt.She was only a girl.Then came the bridge collapse.Steel screamed as the water swallowed everything that she'd ever known as happiness.Her sisters' bodies were pulled from the wreckage twisted into shapes no child should ever have to remember. After that, life became a long hallway leading downward into Hell. By the time she was older and what remained of her family relocated to Nyxhaven, there was very little left inside her untouched by grief.Her friends tried to help however they could even if she was pushy they still cared. So, one afternoon, they dragged her into a small music shop tucked between rain-soaked alleyways and flickering neon signs. There, buried among dusty records and cracked jewel cases, she found it what would change her life forever. Be Mine. The first album by The Vampire Ashriel.