(I do not take ownership for characters from the VHD story, they belong to Hideyuki Kikuchi. The family I'm writing about and the town are mine, though. I'm just a fangirl with an imagination!)
Introduction
For many years, perhaps for a century, no vampires or other creatures had been known to visit the frontier town. It was isolated and impoverished. The town itself laid between a mountain and the ocean, both of which were nearly barren. There was not much reason for humans to even pass by and this was a rare occurrence. So for years, the town of Taranteau was forgotten. It was not 'til the birth of a remarkably beautiful girl in the town that a powerful member of the Nobility began to pay attention.
He watched her for seventeen long, obsessive years as she became a woman. He watched her learn to speak; to walk; to read and write, to dance and sing, and he longed to teach her how to love him as he had loved her in her innocence for so many years. So on one of the many nights of his endless life, he came to the town dressed as a traveler and seduced the young woman as she was walking alone along the ocean shore. She had never seen a man with such unearthly grace and beauty before. She could not resist, and gave into him on the beach as the pale crescent moon hung woefully overhead, knowing all the dark things that she did not.