Celtic_lord88,
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I couldn't decide which 13 lines.
It's always the first 13. That fact, and the reason for it, is contained in the "Read Here First" section.
I've got you as one line too long: it should end with "His hair was".
I agree with Survivor's cryptic comment: you have no POV (point of view). We're not inside anyone's head; we're seeing everything as if it were on a movie screen.
In written fiction, you don't need to stick with the limitations of movies, and you shouldn't. Get inside one of the character's heads, and show how they think about the situation. Is your POV character Abraham? Then you can characterize both him and the other vampire by showing us how Abraham feels about him (Abraham is worried that Dracula won't care about the other vampires, or that he's gone insane; or he's confident that Dracula will come up with a plan). Is it Dracula? Same situation (Dracula hates the filthy runt's pathetic whining; or Dracula cares deeply for his brood, and wonders how he can help them feed without bringing the wrath of humans).
One thing to note: if your POV character is Dracula, I'd start with a description from his POV before Abraham speaks, just to anchor that POV in the reader's mind.
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"Master, our food supply is running dangerously low and the vampires are growing sick of the blood of animals. They want the fresh blood of humans."
This is a fairly standard horror conflict situation, and my initial thought is that there'd better be something interesting happening here or I'll assume that it'll be an overused plot, too.
The rest of this post deals with mechanics.
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The voice was from a small old man. His face was wrinkled and one of his eyes was replaced with a glass eye and his voice was very scratchy.
Look at how many time you use the word "was" here. Very generally speaking, overuse of forms of "to be" indicates a struggle to express yourself forcefully, and often leads to an excessive number of extraneous words.
Richard Lanham, UCLA Professor of English, has an excellent book called "Revising Prose". In it, he describes the "Paramedic Method", which I've found extremely helpful for (go figure) revising prose with exactly this problem. He calls the extraneous words the "lard factor". Here's a link to a quick synopsis of the method:
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/concise.html
Also, your sentence construction is a little off, with a series of clauses strung together with "and". Sometimes an example helps:
"One of the eyes in his wrinkled face was made of glass, and his voice was very scratchy."
Note that Lanham's paramedic method could be used on this little edit, too, to make it better; but also note that it would be much easier if you named your character right out (generally a good idea) instead of just talking about "the voice":
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"Master," Abraham said, "our food supply [snip]." His glass eye stared idiotically from his wrinkled face. Dracula considered the consequences of tearing out the throat that emitted such a scratchy voice, and decided against it.
(You can see that I'm describing him from Dracula's POV, which serves double duty: characterizing Dracula and describing Abraham. Orson Scott Card discusses this in his book on characterization.)
You're a little repetitious, too: "and into the light. The light was...", "His skin was..., but his skin was..." And even the structure's a little repetitious: "His skin was... but his skin was... His hair was..." Shoot for a bit more variety, trying not to force it, but maybe writing the way you would talk.
If you're looking for someone to critique your whole story, you should say that up front. If you'd like me to do that, I'll steal it from the original Web page and email you the results.
Regards,
Oliver