al-majus

1620

⁣My name is Annika, but it was not always so. I was born in Safavid Persia in the Gregorian year 1620, and was made vampyr some twenty years after that. In those days they called me Anna Khanum. As you can see, I was a great and very dangerous beauty. That is why Mother chose me for what we call in Persian, hediyeh siah, the Black Gift. 

written & illustrated by Alaleh Mohajerani

first published on Instagram in December, 2019