always staying a safe distance away. Tonight would be the first night that I would be leaving the house alone. As I looked at the clock I visualized the image of a receding sun behind the blacked out windows. Soon it would be time to leave. I was nervous but felt ready. Sebastian had trained me well and I was confident that I could track my prey. I would soon feel the warmth inside me. This was my favorite time. I craved the warmth and was ready to pursue it.
As the rest of the coven gathered in the foyer reading for the evening ahead I went to check in with Merek.
“ So, your first night alone. Do you feel ready?” “ Yes, thanks Merek. Sebastian has been a great teacher and last night went really well. I am ready” “ Ok then. So where are you headed tonight?” “ I am going to head over to Aqua Blue” I said with forced confidence. “ Fancy” Merek smiled giving me a wink. “ Well good luck. Just remember to not leave any evidence” he said in a more serious tone. “ Of course. I promise I will be careful.” Each coven had their own way of covering their tracks. With people disappearing randomly around the world each day it wasn’t too hard for us to blend into the statistics. The most important thing was to make sure and not leave any evidence or witnesses. Our coven had their own incinerator which we used do dispose of the left over corpses each morning. It was a surprisingly effective system that had allowed the coven to live undetected for centuries. Sliding into the front seat of my nondescript black sedan I pulled down the long drive and onto the road leading into town. Everything about the hunt was designed to leave no lasting impressions. We used common cars and dressed to blend into crowds. Some of the more normally distinctive looking vampires even employed wigs and other elaborate disguises meant to cloak them from the memories of the humans and we moved among them. I pulled into an empty alley across the street from Aqua. Parking lots often had attendants or cameras so I tried to position myself out of recorded view whenever possible. Crossing the street I approached the front door as an attendant quickly opened it with a warm greeting. Aqua was one of the top three bars in the area for the beautiful people. These were generally men and women that had high incomes with little net worth. They desperately wanted to look like the glittering rich and be treated as such. Bar’s like Aqua had been designed to cater to these ego-centric high earners. The bar would role out the red carpet for you and would happily escort your entourage to the supposed VIP area while their hands reached into your pocket to relieve you from your hard earned cash. The thing about people like this is that they were some of the most physically stunning people you would ever meet. The truly rich high net worth people of the world don’t really care about the external approval of others and therefore usually look quite modest in their appearance. The wannabe rich cared deeply about others opinions and spent their time making sure their bodies, clothing, and possessions were the best that they could be. I liked hunting here because the men inside were the same kind I would have drooled over before my change. Once their mouth opened though it generally did not take too long for them to earn my disgust. These guys were full of it and that made it so much easier for me to use their body as I needed. Scanning the bar tonight I looked around for the telltale signs of a single jerk. I tried to stay away from taken men whenever possible. Even when looking at the hunt from an evolutionary perspective I still felt bad taking someone if they would be leaving another behind. It sounded weird in my head as I considered this but the truth was that hunting for humans was very similar to hunting for any other animal. A good hunter respects his prey and only takes what he needs to survive. Human’s, although they