... because of me it took three years before mother closed on the idea of relocating to California. I just didn’t expect it to happen after I had already completed my freshman year at White Bear Lake ... Legend has it the ancient Lemurian city of Telos lies beneath the great northern Californian volcano of Mount Shasta. Lemurians live on, so the storytellers say. We’ve seen them, they say, ... their destinies forever lay to waste by the masters of vampirism. Only the story-tellers, old men and women, a foot set in the grave, dare discharge the secrets they hold, for death is the enemy...