Kerr opened his mouth to answer, hesitated, licked his lips and... closed his mouth again. Interesting that Ben should take that slant on things straight up, considering he\'d just been trying to avoid the topic of Sawyl.
"No. I did, I followed their lines for a couple of hundred years but then... Sawyl got upset one night. He claimed all I ever did was look at the stupid bible - I have a tree recorded in my family bible, you see, which is in the study - and cared more about people I didn\'t even know than I did about him and his mothers. He ranted for a while about how diluted their blood was compared to his and then he went out and... killed the three children of one of my descendants," Kerr explained slowly, attempting a smile but obviously saddened by this tale, for he was noticeably sombre.
"He slaughtered them in their beds and... left them there for their parents to discover. I didn\'t find out for two more nights, even though I\'d wondered why he\'d looked so smug and had stopped arguing with me. It was devastating - a horrible tragedy no-one in the village could understand, though it fed all the vampire mythology that had ever abounded, for he left them with their throats torn open and blood everywhere, considering he couldn\'t drain all three properly with his size. It was hideous. I stopped filling in my tree after that, as you can imagine," he said with a soft laugh, the smile he managed to bear wry.
It had been a while since he\'d thought about such things, but it always saddened him, and he hated the futility of it all. He hadn\'t spoken to Sawyl for a year after that, and they\'d moved on to another country besides Ireland hastily, in order to avoid suspicion.
"I suppose - now that I\'m away from him - that I could complete it easily enough, but I\'ve not got around to it. There were three children originally, two boys and a girl - though none of them ever bore my name, it was all very illicit," he explained with a giggle, wanting the mood to be lighter and warmer. He hugged Ben just a little bit closer and his hand swept languourously up and down his back a few times to this end. "But there are likely thousands that have come from those three children that I know about, by now, so it won\'t be a quick project!"