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Henry Sturges ([personal profile] whichisit) wrote in [community profile] penancememes 2023-02-04 08:08 pm (UTC)

He looks at the sin written down and lets out a soft sigh shaking his head a little and biting his lower lip. His heart only beats about once a minute, if that.

"I went to the Americas as part of the Roanoke colony," He says, pushing his fingers through his hair, "It's important to know what happened there before; you know what I did to Virginia," He closes his eyes.

"A doctor named Crowly was on the ship; I was human and newly married, madly in love with my wife Edeva, my heart, my soul." He thinks for a moment.

"People started dying, common on a voyage that long in the 1500s, but when we got to shore things were fine at the start, hard, but we were trading with the locals," Building the settlement, "Then people started falling ill and dying with a strange sickness, then people who had gone fishing or hunting were turning up dead, puncture marks on their necks, some blamed the nearby tribes."

Henry looks at his heart again, a look of fascination on his face instead of disgust or fear. "It was a vampire; Crowly was a vampire; one night, he was discovered and went to kill the whole settlement; my wife and I ran for the coast like it would save us; she was heavily pregnant; I had to save her and my child." His voice breaks just slightly, "He was too fast, too strong; I barely escaped getting my head cut off; I tried to shoot him, it didn't do any good; he punched me so hard it broke my sternum and collapsed one of my lungs, I was drowning in my own blood." Then, he pauses, "I watched him pick Edva up by the ankles and slam her into a tree, caving her face in; he bit her neck, she started screaming it hadn't killed her, and slammed her into the tree again, snapping her spine."

He'll get to Virginia, but this clarification is necessary, at least to Henry.

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