Translated from the 1193 Moon Calendar Diary — Fragment)
Researcher's Note — Year 2025
This page was recovered beneath a massive stone slab, as if someone tried to seal it permanently.
Much of the text is damaged or written in symbols we still cannot translate. Below is the closest readable version.
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**⟡ "The Third Mark: The Child Raised by Humans"
(Translated, with missing portions indicated)
— "Among the blood-born, there exists a practice forbidden to name.
They do not hunt only flesh… they enter families unseen."
— "When a clan must survive, they place a youngling within a human dwelling.
Never stolen. Never birthed. Simply… placed."
— "Memory bends like soft metal. One dream, one touch, and the humans believe the child has always been theirs."
— "The young one learns laughter, manners, warmth…
…(unreadable line: ◁⟁⍙⧫⧖⟐⍚)…
only to use them upon awakening."
— "Humans of the future will believe vampires love only one partner.
This is… (damaged)… a misunderstanding.
They are faithful—yes—
but their loyalty belongs not to humans."
— "They bond only to their blood-kind, the echo of their true origin."
— "A human raising a vampire child will never remember the first night.
Records vanish. Memories fold."
(Three lines lost under burn marks.)
— "Beware the silent children.
Beware the ones who rarely cry.
They are watching."
— "When the thirteenth night of awakening arrives,
the false memories… (illegible: ⧖⧖⧖⚯⟁)… dissolve,
and the child hears the Moon Call."
— "…by that time… always too late…"
(End of decipherable text.)
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Researcher's Final Note
> "The untranslated symbols repeat often, almost like a name or a warning.
Whoever wrote this wanted it buried. Perhaps for our safety."