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"A mighty prize indeed," the King remarked, "for the Duanann are reputed to be the most formidable of their kind; theirs is a blood that surely exceeds in quality the more plentiful stock of Epressa and Liadain. But why does this matter concern me, Tarzyn? You need not my permission to do...

Akiza was in league with the lesser vampires in how they regarded the arrival of the new figure. Now that he had revealed himself and she had laid eyes on him she felt a similar aversion, a subtle dread that starts in the bones and resonates outward to make the blood quiver. The King of this New...

"Lucky is my middle name," Akiza said. The sensual rush of feeding had a tendency to fade with ever increasing quickness, but still its last vestiges remained, and thence came another of her carefree commentary. Only a fool relied on luck as a first means rather than a last hope, so sober Akiza...

"I understand," said King Jürgen. "Though my own personal stock reflects that which may be found in the surrounding lands, namely those ordinary humans of which you speak, still one of my subjects, perhaps, has gone afar, and has secured for himself or herself a more exotic thrall to suit their...

Akiza, if she in that moment had been pressed to tell the truth, would have to say she felt a touch nervous as Afanas withdrew from the radiant gaze of the King's attention. Her time to go forward. What could be so wrong? This was the whole reason why she had come here. Well, mayhap all her time...

And with a slow and deliberate wave of his free hand, King Jürgen declared: "It is done. I shall have the force so requested assembled in no more than three nights' time, and for those of my warriors who swear to this mission, you shall for the duration wield authority over them as though it...

Psuchepage. Soul eater. Life devourer. "Oh," she said, more bemused than anything. "You're right. I assumed." The sting of one's intuition being wrong was a rare, if familiar, feeling to Akiza. She'd credit her survival for so long to having a keen sense of danger and opportunity, branches...

All fine points of negotiation made by Afanas—this evidenced by the King's small but visible approval of each. Here the slight curve of smile at the mention of Reikhurst's formal recognition, there the subtle nod at the tangible offer of receiving the banished, the unwanted, from Alliria's...

A raising of brows and a puckering of lips upon hearing the unexpected. "Surprising," said King Jürgen, giving voice to his expression. "Hardly would I have thought it so, but here you are." He thought for a moment and then continued, "Alliria is known as the Center of the World, the great...

King Jürgen listened with great attentiveness. And then he delivered his response: "So they in their desperate hope turn to those whom they would otherwise spurn. Yet it is clear to see why they would so spurn; the common bird seeks no kinship with the hawk, nor does the deer befriend the wolf...

Such a gesture as Afanas offered to the King was foreign to Akiza; most social customs in her long travels on the run throughout Arethil were. But she was nothing if not an improviser, quick on her feet, and in so catching sight of Afanas from the corner of her eye did as he did in her own...

What I do know, though, is that death can have me, when it earns me. There in Akiza's eyes came a red shine, a glimmer of admiration and endearment. What a way to put it! Nearly in direct defiance of his previous statement, here was a sentiment Akiza couldn't help but to enjoy. Afanas despised...

Fae. For the longest time, even for a while into her vampirism, Akiza had thought them to be merely tall tales; for while many races and creatures populated Arethil, the full scope of which likely unknown to any one person, there among the truth lurked stories born of imagination or...

By force if need be. Oh. She might like that. And Akiza might like to watch. But that was a vista on the other side of the bridge, so to speak, as they both still had their audience with King Jürgen before them. The commencement of music preceded Afanas's telling more of his father. Maybe there...

"Yes. I did," came Akiza's reply, now with a smile full-fledged. Like a moth she often courted the flame, even as she knew what awaited should she hover too close. A flaw, her more pragmatic and realist side would conclude. Yet in another way she was happy that this was something she indulged...