You begin working your massive wingspan, pulling you quickly through the air. Your eyesight has become rather poor; while you’re not blind, like many people think bats are, you begin to rely mostly on your strong sense of hearing to plot movement. Sonar beeps emit from your mouth, guiding you along by echolocation.
The smell of fresh blood drifts into your nostrils; you raise your fan-like wings to begin a descent. You can barely make out a group of three humans by the side of a horse-drawn wooden wagon, tending to an injured and bloody young woman. You hear them talk about getting her away quickly, “lest the vampires come looking for her.” The humans must know about your kind.
Deftly, you divebomb the scene, scattering the humans in fear. The woozy woman is powerless to resist as you grip her shoulders in your nimble feet talons and rise once more into the air, leaving the screaming and wailing humans behind.
As you fly with your catch, you begin to realize something else about yourself. Despite your exertion that keeps you aloft, you’re not breathing hard. In fact, you’re not breathing at all! You listen for a heartbeat that never comes. Suddenly, you realize that you’re not just a vampire bat, but a vampire, the living dead! This realization might frighten you more, if you weren’t still seized by your blood hunger.
You finally locate a cave to have your prey, and you drop her gently to the cold rock floor deep within, so as not to damage your meal. You land beside her, urged on by the voices to feed.
You drop into a crouch and puncture her neck with your fangs, taking her neck within your muzzle, and begin drinking freely from the jugular. Her blood warms your flesh, only slightly. You feel flooded with power. The woman moans, surprisingly receptive to having her life siphoned away.
A choice enters your mind. If you continue to drink, you will be sated for several nights to come, but the woman will die. If you stop now, you must feed again tomorrow. You will have a companion, however, as the woman will die and transform into a vampire she-bat, just like you.