It was nearly daylight, and the little vampire was running out of time. He had extracted blood from my elbow, and index finger, but he wanted more. He made the mistake of flying near my ear. The sound of his wings flapping near my head woke me up. I turned on a light and looked for the irritant. Why my blood? You don’t really need it, or do you?
He was blending into the cedar wood walls. He was no place to be found. I’ll let the fishermen handle him, I thought. The fishermen had their webs cast and were in waiting. I gave a few spiders a pass and let them live peacefully in the higher elevations. Spiders hunt with nets and wait like fishermen.
I went back to bed and barricaded myself underneath my pillow and blanket. I heard the mosquito flying overhead. He was ambitious, but he couldn’t get to me. Frustrated, and short on time, he disappeared. I slept hard for hours, until I heard a blue jay squawking outside my cabin window.
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