Happy Birthday
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Cadmus drew the air in through his nostrils.
“The stench of your fear pollutes the air,” he growled at the man in Hebrew. “But I will not complain, for that animal fight or flight instinct only serves to fortify your sickly blood and enrich it within my chalice.”
“What are you?” The man came close to squealing through half-closed wind-pipes.
“I am a child of Lilith,” Cadmus whispered. “Her only child in fact, wrought of demon seed and stirred to life by the direst mantras you dare imagine in the dark of night as you lay awake pondering your various perversions. I am that which is brought forth when hopelessness and futility are wed, when all that you thought good in the world…disappears…and you are left in a diaphanous void, lost, lonely, eternally bound to nothingness. Come…let me show you how beautiful it can be.”