Destroy All

"Breakfast. Five minutes," my dad said as he knocked on my door.

"Huh?" I forgot to set my alarm, but usually didn't need it. Pushing myself out of bed, I stumbled over to the window. I was late. Abrea probably wondered what happened to me.

"Jasmine?" My dad knocked again.

"I'm up. Thanks!" I needed to hurry but pushed open the window instead. As I stared aimlessly out at the landscape, I thought of the dream.

Two entities had been speaking and their words filled my mind like they were within. Or, maybe I'd somehow traveled into their minds.

***

"The vampire child is not performing as expected. She doesn't care about her destiny or the fate of her kind. She's a total disappointment." He slithered his body around the vast darkness that was everywhere and nowhere. The inkiness seemed to expand and contract, like breathing, around them.

"There is always our first inclination." She glided beside him, producing an orb of light, just big enough so they could see each other. Not that it