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Colby Blanchard Undead Living 102 Being Undead Short Essay

Being Undead: What it means to me

In the fall of my senior year of high school, I walked home after a football game, alone. I was attacked by a rogue vampire who changed me into a vampire. I quickly discovered (after a visit from some Vampire Investigators) that I was Undead without a license and not even a full-blood vampire, but only a half-blood. Normally, I would have been destroyed because I only possess some vampire traits, but I provided a pretty compelling argument, managing to get a license, emancipate other half-bloods and was given the job as their Protector. But full-bloods still don?t like us. At all.

But why? Well, it appears I am prophesied in some ancient texts to bring about the end of the world.

This time the mixed blood will rise,

The One who is Undead but Alive,

Who is pure but not whole,

And they will bring forth the beginning of the end.

So, what’s being Undead mean to me? It means I have no time. Since full-bloods don’t like me, they all want to kill me and I’m constantly dodging stakes and swords, I never have time to finish my assignments. Which is why this essay is late.