Vol 4 Prologue (1/2)

Prologue: Vampires…?

Southern Germany

The peaceful village was nestled in the mountainside

The little settlee city, was a tranquil place hoers

There was no cell phone signal, let alone telephone service At nals

There were no newspapers, cars, or paved paths good enough for bicycles

It was a world far fro It was essentially a landlocked island

But the young people of the village did not pack up and leave for the city There was a good balance of age groups, with about ten or so of both children and elders

But calae

There was no sign and no prelude to the incident

But it was undeniably an eerie calae

The e was snail mail

This hy the postman was first to notice the calamity

He started fro for three hours to collect and deliver mail

It had been three years now since he had begun to run this route

When he first took over, he was, to be perfectly honest, a little angry at the village

The day before he began the route, he even went drinking with his co-worker and coers should just ”

But the man was quickly ashamed of what he had said

The e with his predecessor, his impression of the settlement did a 180

The villagers, with their warratitude—as though he had saved their lives, even though all he had done was deliver the mail

They tearfully saw off his predecessor for the last time, and welcomed the postman like family

Froe and the outside world

Children crowded around hiside the adults

The heartwarized hi the mountain once a week

But when he arrived this tiun

He could not hear their voices

Normally, he would hear the sound of children's voices as they chattered and screae square

But even after stepping through the village entrance, he did not hear them In fact, he didn't hear the sounds that came with the presence of people

A looan to press on his heart

At first, it was trepidation Then, confusion and terror and trepidation again

His eh and soblled, and eventually his trepidation grew so intense that he ended up screa,

”I, is anyone here?!”

But his cry only confirmed his fears

The village was exactly as he had left it a week ago