One of my favorite things to do with vampires is just to trace the bloodlines. This sounds like a silly thing, but I love just looking back, and seeing how the original vampire, became the however many elder clans, and how they then interacted, and grew, and whatnot. To that end, I thought this was a fun read--hearing how the original clans came about, and whatnot. A few of the lines felt a little out of place at first, but once you reach the end and find it's not all happy campfire stories, and is in fact an execution fixes that problem. Pretty clever twist there. I thought that was rather nifty. I think adding a sort of a "this is the good they've done for the queen" would've added both some clever foreshadowing to the twist, and made her telling the story a bit more believable. It did seem a little odd how she was telling all of this to the Queen who already knew it all (though, it seems that was the Queen's intention). The one thing that did kind of bug me a little bit, though, was how many times it interrupted the story for a minor detail about the surroundings. Some of them were good, like the sun rising, and revealing that the people around the campfire were all members of the vampire clans, but it happened just a tad too frequently. All in all though, very good! I liked it! Every time I try to write a vampire story, I wind up always kinda wanting to boil down to doing this; just making a bunch of vampire clans and plainly summing up their history. I find this stuff super nifty!