I am Tick.  Another of the hated ones--the ones in the vampire clan--the ones for which you see no purpose.

          I am Tick.  Has it occurred to you that my lack of purpose is my purpose?  That in learning to love and accept the Life within even the likes of me, you learn a Love much greater than you had ever before imagined?

          I am Tick.  Can you love me?  Can you see Spirit in me?  Can you kill with reverence for the Life you have extinguished?

          I am Tick.  Understand that every piece--no matter how lowly or despised--is part of All.  Though we will never be friends, your treatment of me displays the level of your Love.