I'm listening to: The Platters - Only You

Haven't I already buried you?

In The Last Vampire, our 5000 year-old protagonist gets an opportunity to go back in time to a pivotal moment in her history when with a knife in her hand, she has to make a decision regarding her friend's yakshini-possessed baby. What she initially did was decide not to kill him, triggering the birth of the vampiric race (since he was the first vampire) which left a long trail of blood across the centuries to follow. This time, she does otherwise, so her life technically ends where it began - in a desert in Rajastan at the dawn of human civilization within a comparatively short span of time. On the other hand, it is later revealed that the entire narrative has been documented by her friend of the modern day whom she met in Oregon and shares a unique psychic connection with.

So, does her 5000 year-old (hi)story really exist or not? More broadly, what does it mean to qualify the existence of an entity with regard to time and against what other measures can this be done? I think I've found my answer, and it's a pretty one.

Bon soir, mon chéri.



There's a place that ends here, I know
When they close the gates I'll cry.