req·ui·em (rkw-m, rkw-)
1. Requiem Roman Catholic Church
a. A mass for a deceased person.
b. A musical composition for such a mass.
2. A hymn, composition, or service for the dead.
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/requiem)
RequilIem was the name she took. It seemed fitting since she had attended her own funeral. If only she was really dead. Instead she was cursed to roam the world in the dark of night and feast on the blood of the living as a vampyr. It was ironic really, she was so obsessed with these creatures with no souls that she ended up too close to a real one and is now one of them. At her funeral as they played her requiem, her last song, she noticed that the wards of the priest and the cross that hung from his wrinkled neck held no power over her and her cursed body. Needing a place to stay for the light hours, she found an old abandoned church where she spent her days sleeping as the dead in the cellar. However as night fell she was more alive than she ever had been. The darkness embraced her, the moon called to her and the blood of man quenched her burning thirst.