With a familiar ear splitting creak the bright florescent hallway lights streamed into the dark room causing the vampires eyes to sting before he shifted his head to look away from the burning white glare. The sound of footsteps approaching would come soon, maybe a few laughs and taunting words, maybe the dragging sound of a chain across the floor. His ‘owner’ had been insistent on using one to pull him around lately, and it came complete with a muzzle to prevent any form of biting that could help him get free of the nightmare he’d been stuck in for what seemed to be a century, when really it had been only a year. Keeping his eyes closed,body curled up in his usual place at the edge of the room, Adam tried to steady his breathing,to feign sleep or illness, in order to keep the man from doing too much harm this day. Not that it ever helped. He’d been given the liberty to be as free spirited as he wanted,but he’d been forced to submit to the mans whims just to stay alive. The burn marks from the sun usually healed quickly, but his arm was covered in a large bandage where the healing hadn’t taken place as quickly as usual from the frequent torment he’d received.
Something was strange about the footsteps today. It was one pair, but they were far too heavy to be his ‘owners’. There was also a strange smell of sweat, dirt, and fire coming into the usually musky room,and was that screaming and shouting he heard in the hall? It had nothing to do with him. Why should he care what was happening to the zombies outside of his windowless cell. Shifting, the sound of his shackles scraping against the concrete filled the room. Whatever was happening, it didn’t sound very pretty with all the alarms shrieking out in the hall. Maybe he could just go to sleep, forget where he was for another few hours, and if he had the energy devour the next person that came to give him his daily feed of blood.