Rise (Narrative)
John and Pam both had to split as the dawn began to break. Melody was somewhat glad for that, since she was - in the end - only human, and didn't have quite the energy stores of the two vampires. Even when she was feeding off of them, she couldn't fight the feeling of needing to sleep. Of being exhausted. Of being worn out - but in a good way.
She was left behind in a bit of a rush, but took her time in leaving the little house herself. She made sure that all the candles were out so that it wouldn't burn to the ground, and did her best in making certain that it was closed up. She even spent some time straightening up stuff that had gotten moved or pushed or knocked over.
The walk back to the house in the center of town wasn't long, and Melody was really looking forward to getting into Pam's bed and falling asleep. The thought of the warm covers over her made her even more drowsy than she'd been, which was saying something.
There was a stupid look on her face, something between a smile and a stoner nod-off, as she made her way through the streets. She'd had her fill of death and of sex. For the first time, she'd had them both together. It was a strange sensation, but it felt right. Felt like it fit. Melody knew that she wasn't going to have to eat actual food for at least a week with what she'd gotten from the vampire siblings. She could just exist in a little bubble of death and be a happy girl.
Despite how full she was, her senses woke up as she passed a big vacant area. There was a good amount of active death there. And there hadn't been earlier. She would have remembered that. She would have asked about it. The death there also wasn't just not staying still. It was... moving... fast. Not like how she'd felt it move on the outside of the walls. Not like Pam and John, either. It felt like surfacing, coming into the world from a dark place. Melody changed her direction and went toward it. The big plot of land looking like it had just freshly been created, like there had been something else there before.
She waited for a few minutes, and was just deciding that maybe nothing significant was going to happen at all when she saw the first of them. The hands coming up from the soil. The bodies being pulled up after. Her eyes widened, her body froze.