IOD features the Kalu Kumaraya (Black Prince), a vampire-like creature native to Sri Lanka. I imagined this as his origin story. This one is not PG-13, but the perspective told in IOD is. This backstory may or may not feature in the final cut of IOD.
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I've been firing on all cylinders in the last week. My daughter caught a debilitating stomach virus. I ended up self-medicating with YouTube videos and experimented with social media. I rubbed my daughter's belly and sang, "belly ache, belly ache, go away, go away." She's better now.
Yaksha/demons are significant in Sri Lanka as representations of illness or distress. I felt, as I was writing IOD that this was appropriate to bring a historic norm to the modern era.
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