#this image of vampire yearing appeared to me and i was overcome with grief for them

[beamorgan]

Do you think vampires mourn the stars?

They remember the time before electric lights. They made their transition from people of the day to creatures of the night - but the change was not so stark, because the night was still bright with the glitter of a galaxy. When they looked up, it was not a single sun that hung in the sky but hundreds. Thousands. Pinpricks of light that travelled lifetimes to shine above the Earth.

Then the humans poured their artificial light into the atmosphere, and the stars were gone. Smothered by a blanket of orange-grey muck.

Vampires have to live where humans are, and humans mean light pollution. To find the stars again would require hunger. Starvation.

They choose to be well fed. They choose to grieve the night sky they used to know