Vampire power

Whether a bitten human became a bloodthirsty creature like the Nobility or
was left a mere mummy depended on the intent of the Noble that drained
his or her blood. Though exceedingly rare, there were also some cases
where what happened to the victim ran counter to the wishes of the
vampire. A drained individual might be left as a human incredibly low on
blood, refusing to change. And an emaciated man left to die of blood loss
could come back as a vampire.

Everyone the girl’s father fed on had become the same sort of fiend with a
single bite. Those he attacked sought new victims, and, in the course of a
single night, the whole village was transformed into pseudo-Nobility. But
the girl had been rendered unconscious by the intense beating she’d
received. She had seen none of this.

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