George believed the truth of the note in blood. He lied to Lillian, told her it was part and parcel of Madam Lucifer’s cruel tactics and likely false, but he knew she didn’t believe him. He’d done his maker’s duty in the first weeks after her transformation, teaching her Atil’s commandments, which forbade breeding. She’d questioned the obvious error in logic. “If vampires bear no children, why must reproduction be forbidden?” “Vampire and mortal unions. Tales of such abound, although I never met a child of such parentage. In divine retribution for the mating of Atil and Ursula, whose children are our Elders, the offspring of such unions are said to be caught between this world and the next, doomed to insanity. Merely folktales to scare young vampires, I imagine.” George had never considered trying to father a child on a mortal. The paternal gene had not seemed to lurk within him, and why would he create something so frail and helpless?
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