Paris, 1794

[Sofia's POV]

Elizabeth and Sofia recline on a sofa together, nude and drenched in blood. They are in the opulent parlor of a merchant's stately Parisian home. Blood is spattered on the floor and walls. The bodies of the merchant's family and his servants are scattered around the room, in various states of undress. Some have their throats torn out, while others roll around dazed from their blood loss.

"Two hundred years, and I never tire of this" Sofia says, licking blood from her fingertips.

"Blue blood is the best blood" Elizabeth laughs.

On the floor, the beautiful Thekla pins the arms of one of the merchant's daughters, her fangs driven into the girl's breasts. Elizabeth and Sofia watch her feed. They had turned the dark beauty together in the 1740s during a vacation to the Greek islands. Sofia touches herself as she watches Thekla drink the poor young girl dry.

"Where are Delphine and Emma?" Elizabeth asks, her eyebrow raised. As if on cue, the vampiresses return to the parlor, dragging two sobbing servants behind them.

"We found these two hiding in the wine cellar" Delphine says.

"They look like a good vintage" Emma laughs, as they push the servants into the middle of the parlor.

Delphine and Emma were French sisters that Elizabeth had turned in the last year. They were slender and fair haired, with large blue eyes and soft features. Their innocent appearance belied their darkness. Even Elizabeth was impressed with their appetites after watching them devour their entire family the night they rose.

Thekla drains the merchant's daughter under her. She sits up on her heels triumphantly. "Another enemy of the people brought to justice" she says sarcastically.

"Vive la révolution" Elizabeth says darkly, holding the wrist up of the dazed woman sitting on the floor before her in a macabre toast. She bites into the wrist, and the girl whimpers but is too weak to struggle.

Delphine and Emma bite into either side of one of the struggling servant's necks. Thekla moves to grip the other servant tightly. She forces the servant to the ground and bites into the girl's throat as she shrieks. Sofia rises from the couch, kneels on the floor, sinking her fangs into the girl's thigh. These French maidens never disappoint she thinks as the delicious blood courses down her throat.

With the last victim's exsanguinated, the house goes quiet. The five vampiresses, drunk on blood, lay together on the rug, softly kissing and caressing each other.

Elizabeth, Sofia and the other vampiresses had been burning through France for the last two years. They moved from town to town, feasting on the people they found.

The chaos of the revolution provided an ideal backdrop for their massacres. Sometimes, they staged the scenes of their feedings to look like a savage burst of **** by the sans-culottes. Other times, they covered their tracks with fire. As the revolution had devolved into wanton bloodletting and vigilantism, the vampiresses became more brazen and less cautious, sometimes even feeding publicly.

Elizabeth and her brood drank their way though the countryside, to the towns surrounding Paris, before finally descending on the capital to gorge themselves on its inhabitants.

Delphine and Emma had been ardent Republicans as humans, and their revolutionary fervor had endured in some twisted way. Draining the wealthy wasn't a crime, it was their patriotic duty. That doesn't stop them from draining aristocracy and peasantry alike Sofia notes wryly. Elizabeth, Sofia and Thekla were older and more cynical, just enjoying the chaos and the blood.

The vampiresses untangle on the floor, wash themselves and dress. "It's getting late, we should be getting back for the day" Sofia says. Elizabeth nods. The vampiresses exit the home, leaving a dozen corpses in their wake. A stagecoach waits for them. The driver, a thrall, helps the vampiresses clamber inside. A bound and nude young girl is inside, her eyes darting frantically.

"For your breakfast, tomorrow" the driver says.

The vampiresses drive off as the sky begins to lighten in the east.