“Can you just shut up for five minutes?”
It was funny, really. No matter where you went on this God forsaken earth, no matter who you ran into or what you witnessed, everyone was the same. Humanity as a whole shared the same singular desire. The thirst for power. New Orleans, the Quarter, it was no different. It didn’t matter what your species; witch, werewolf, vampire. Creatures large and small all coveted that singular 5 letter word. The greater the power, the larger the ego. The more they’d walk around flaunting their abilities, their minions, their nicknames.
The ‘King of the Quarter’ was no different to any other current leader. Walking around with his head up his ass demanding respect for an authority ripped from its predecessor. No matter, for like his predecessor, it wouldn’t be long till it was ripped from him. Dethroned and forgotten, like every ruler before him had been. The quest for power was one that most did not come back from.
“Can you just shut up for five minutes” Ric was exasperated, sick of hearing the same old ‘this is my quarter’ spiel. “I get it. You’re a vamp. You have scary powers. Yada yada yada.” He rolled his eyes and shoved his hands back into his pockets, wondering why he accepted this meeting in the first place. The supernatural feud between the species wasn’t usually his scene unless of course it meant protecting the humans he represented.
Which was odd, really, considering he wasn’t completely human. Being a psychic did have it’s advantages in life, but it often caused him to contemplate his place in the world, in the war... Was he the innocent human people so assumed? Or just another monster like them? Lord only knew, his hands weren’t clean.