Noble true death

The charred human form began to lose its thickness, turning into a pile of
dust. In the blink of an eye, the gusting winds had scattered the remains far
and wide. This was the second case of the vampire infection. However,
simply just because a person had turned into a vampire didn’t necessarily
mean they would crumble like ash when true death claimed them. The
degree of corruption their body manifested depended entirely on how long
it’d been since they’d been made a servant of the Nobility.

A person who’d spent three days in their service would leave a rotting corpse. Given two
weeks, the flesh would melt from their bones. If more than a year had
passed, then they might be reduced to dust. In death alone they would be
bound by the same rules as the living. What’d just occurred to the corpse of
this vampirized individual simply wasn’t possible. Or was this a case where
his transformation into one of the Nobility had long been concealed?
No, that wasn’t possible, either. This was an entirely new disease. Perhaps
it should’ve been called Nobilitation Syndrome.

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