Vampiric

In the afternoon of the 22nd of January of 2022, on my way back from the cafe, I met Sherie, wearing a red and black checkered long-sleeved shirt, as she was walking her pitbull. I asked her the name of her dog, which is "Sekari," supposedly Inuktitut. Sherie is part-Cree, part-French, part-Norwegian, etc., a "Heinz 57," we both agreed. Sherie has artificial vampiric fangs because she is a Goth.

Bratislav, the Croatian-descent dog owner of Rafa and Chino, does believe in souls and spirits, in some ways. On the 20th of October of 2012, with two leashes in hand, Bratislav the vampiric baron phantom struts approaching along the Halloween-like sidewalk, and then we have a conversation near the dilapidated purple-leaved tree in the neighbour Bruce's yard, here on Lulu Island. Yes, he says, he believes in souls and spirits and each kind is in a human body. I tell him that in some religions, people believe in multiple souls and spirits inside a body and to complicate matters, they may be "fluid" in nature. Bratislav thinks that I am like a Hispanic, but I imbue in him the notion of at least some Eastern influence inside of me. I take a pseudo-scientific turn and tell him that the "soul-spirit structure" may be really complicated and may have many components like a chandelier does with different gems and crystals.

Studying Latinate languages has been a stream of joy for me: I have learned at different levels the languages Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Catalan, Chabacano (Chavacano), Elefen, Interlingua, Kreyòl, and Esperanto, but I have encountered them not in this order. In the Philippines, my native Tagalog from childhood has Spanish words embedded in it. I eventually took Spanish at university in BC. I had introductory French in Grade 5 on Lulu Island, continued it in high school, then in post-secondary education. I have learned the rest autodidactically. I have reading strength in my languages, but not much in speaking, except in Esperanto, in which I have attained a high level, partly due to my participation in various clubs. I enjoy reading novels in the different languages, especially in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, as I immerse myself in far-flung worlds. Romanian is for me still a vampiric curiosity, which I have not explored much. Additionally, I am curious also about Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish. Interestingly, I know how to pronounce Classical Latin.

Vampirics kill to eat, not to play. Mostly.

You should know Jakob; you are one of the oldest Vampirics we have here besides Braedon and me.