Mortal Companion
by Patrick Califia
Category: Fiction

For Ulric, a pagan warrior who was turned into a vampire in the 14th century, immortality has come at the price of a deep and abiding loneliness. Now he has found his soulmate, a woman who loves him in spite of her doubts about the things he must do to survive. She cannot live forever though, unless she also becomes a vampire and making that choice would force her to leave Ulric to establish her own hunting ground where she would reign supreme, but alone.