a break from the poetry

Ok, for those of you who know me from Dragon Court, behold, the true beginnings of Asaria. Teleina Asaria Setemyr was created my senior year of high school as the beginning of a play I sadly never finished. Of course, being the packrat that I am....I still have the opening monologue

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Full Moon Act I, scene I

Spotlight on moon, moves toward, then down tree, Teleina leans against, howl heard, she jumps and howls back. Howls heard again, stage goes black. Dog fight heard, one sharp yelp, lights back on. Teleina has shed jacket, shirt is torn, she carries katana, throws bandanna on ground

Teleina: So tired of killing. So damned tired of killing. So tired of trying to decide who will live, and who will die. SO tired of those wretched years that pass so slow. These years that give way to no life, only to death. Only to a Death who is not choosy. I am so tired of the murder, disease, destruction. (points toward moon with sword) Look at that! It commands my every move. It's full face mocks me into a blood thirst, into a crave, a passion, a hunger for warm blood that I cannot control. It drives me into a pit. A pity for those that rest in the light of the moon, instead of living in it. A pity to those unknowing souls who sleep, when at any moment they c ould become food for the next craving kindred soul. (points at the moon again) Tonight is the night of the moon, the night of the feast, tonight is the night we dominate. I am Teleina, I am the e witch, the vampire, the fears that mortals gave name to so long ago. I have tried to deny my past, tried to survive in a way other than the immortal life. I have denied my clan, my family, myself. I have denied all that I have ever known. And what for? Only to have my life tossed back into my face, condemned by YOU! Condemned by mere mortals who do not know what it is like to live in the shadows, to be tortured by the light. Yes, you are the one who had condemned me, and now, it is my turn. It is my turn to show you the life that I lead because of you. To show you all I hav been put through. (sounds of doors being locked, Teleina smiles) And it seems I have a captive audience. Welcome to my life, my pain, my 600 years of hell. (Walks off stage, everything black save for moon)