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From: Shalon Wood <dstar@pele.cx>
Subject: {ASSM} New Age Dawning 4 (Ff rom fantasy viol blood)
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Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 04:10:05 -0400
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Adara woke with the girl pressed tightly against her. The unnatural warmth
had faded during the night, and now she was almost cool to the touch, and
showed no sign of waking. She nudged her. "Time to wake up, Rhi."

"Mmm?" Rhishandri blinked heavy lidded eyes and shivered. "Already?" Her
eyes closed, and she cuddled back up against Adara's warmth.

"Yup," Adara nodded, then watched as the girl suddenly stiffened, then
froze, going very very still like a snake about to strike. "Are you
hungry?" she asked softly.

Rhishandri looked up, slowly, and the gold flecks swimming in her eyes were
glowing. She licked her lips and inhaled deeply, her eyes going unfocused.
"Rhi?" Adara asked, feeling as if the girl weren't entirely there to
answer.

She shivered, leaning in closer. "Cold," she whispered, and her lips
remained parted, little fangs gleaming in the dim light.

Adara stroked her cheek, moving slowly and carefully. "I'll build the fire
up," she said, then slid cautiously out of the bed. Rhishandri rolled over
onto her hands and knees and crawled across the bed gracefully, following
her, but stopped at the edge of the bed, head straining outwards. She
looked decidedly inhuman.

"Come back," she said.

Adara knelt in front of the fire, opening the grate to add another log.
"Hmm?"

"Come back," the girl repeated.

"Do you need something?" Adara asked, with a hint of a smile, and
Rhishandri nodded slowly. "What?"

Rhi whimpered, and it turned into a low growl. "Tell me what you want,"
Adara said.

The girl shivered, closing her eyes for a moment. When she opened them, the
gold had completely overwhelmed the green. "Warmth," she breathed.

Adara stared into her glowing gold eyes for a few seconds, then said, "Let
me get the fire going good."

Rhi started to whimper again, then jumped at a sudden knock on the door.

Stiffening, Adara called, "Who is it?"

"The maid, miss, with your wash-water and breakfast."  

The girl's eyes were fixed hungrily on the door. Adara frowned. "Can you
give us a few minutes, please?"

"Ah...yes'm, I guess."

Rhishandri flowed from the bed, gliding towards the door, licking her lips,
and Adara moved to intercept her. She snarled, rising up to her knees, and
Adara put her hands on her shoulders, holding her in place. "Calm down.
Stay in control. Let's get back in the bed," she said quietly.

With a longing look at the door, Rhi let herself be led back to the bed.
Adara lay down beside her, holding out an arm invitingly. "Here. Come get
warm."

The girl trembled violently and started to reach for Adara. Then she
snatched her hands back, and a bit of green seeped back into the glowing
gold eyes. "Don't," she said, between clenched teeth. "Get back, go out."

"What's wrong?"

Rhi shivered again, moaning. "I want... I need... I don't want to hurt
you!"

"What do you need?"

She moaned again, closing her eyes. "Heat. Life." Her whole body was tense
with the effort to remain still, as she whispered, "Blood."

"How much blood?" Adara asked calmly.

"I don't know!" she snapped, then whispered pitifully, "so cold..."

Adara smiled. "Don't kill me, and don't weaken me too much, okay?"

"I... please, I can't! I'm afraid. Don't let me!"

Adara took Rhi's cold cheeks gently between her hands and bent, giving her
a soft kiss. "It's okay," she said, and drew the girl's head down to her
throat. 

Rhi groaned, her body shuddering spasmodically. She opened her mouth
against Adara's throat, nuzzling into the pulse, still fighting herself. 

"Go on," Adara said, stroking her hair.

Rhishandri gave a little scream against her throat, then wrapped her arms
around Adara's head, pulling her close as the little fangs pierced the
skin, sharp and cold. At the taste of the blood, she seemed to lose all
control, and plastered herself to the woman's body, fangs digging deeply.
Adara winced just a bit, then closed her eyes and began devoting her energy
reserves to healing herself as the girl fed.

She took a massive amount of blood; a normal human would have been dead
well before she finished. A couple of times, she seemed to be trying to
pull back, to stop herself, but she couldn't manage it. Her body slowly
warmed as she drank. After about ten minutes, she was still feeding
hungrily and shivering. Another ten minutes, and her body was up to normal
temperature and her hungry suckling gradually slowed until, at last, she
was just licking at the wound as the flow of blood decreased to a trickle. 


Adara lay still with her eyes closed as she burned the necessary energy to
heal the blood loss and start on the wound. The girl was soft and warm
against her, relaxed, almost limp. She nuzzled the wound one last time,
then drew back as Adara opened her eyes and looked down at her.

Rhi's eyes were sleepy and content, back to their normal gold-flecked green
and no longer glowing. She licked her lips, then looked up at Adara in
sudden alarm. She fully expected to find her dead, and that expectation was
clearly written on her horror stricken face.

Adara smiled at her, then cupped her head and pulled it up for a slow,
tender kiss. "See? I'm fine."

The girl stared up at her, her eyes wide and astonished, as startled by the
kiss as by Adara's survival.  She touched the still torn but no longer
bleeding flesh at Adara's throat hesitantly, softly, her eyes guilty. "How?
I couldn't stop... I... I was sure-- How are you alive?"

"Well," Adara said with a grin, "for one, I'm not totally human, and for
another, I can heal myself."

Rhishandri sighed in relief. "Thank the gods for that. I... I'm so sorry.
Gods, I didn't mean to... I tried, but I couldn't stop!"

She put a finger on the girl's lips to quiet her, and smiled. "That's why I
offered. It's okay," she said, stroking a bit of hair back from Rhi's face.


She rubbed her cheek against Adara's hand for a moment, not even realizing
she was doing so, then her eyes widened. "That girl, the maid... I would
have killed her, wouldn't I?" she asked.

"Probably. That's why I told her to wait."

The girl was horrified. She swallowed hard. "Oh gods. Thank you for
stopping me."

Adara shrugged, a slight grin on her face. "I've been there. Don't worry
about it. Are you ready to wash up?"

Rhishandri licked her lips again, tasting the drying blood, then nodded and
looked down at the floor.

"What's wrong?" Adara asked, as the girl blushed. When there was no answer,
she raised an eyebrow and tilted Rhi's chin up so she could look at her.
"Mmm?"

"I... I'm embarrassed," the girl mumbled.

Adara tilted her head. "Why?"

The blush brightened. "Um... all of this. I... I've never..."

"Never...?"

"Never behaved like... this," Rhi finished weakly.

"Ah," Adara said, then planted another soft kiss on the girl's lips before
sliding out of bed. "Don't worry about it. There's lots of things you
haven't done before."

The blush flared fire-bright. 

Adara looked at her, stopping suddenly. "I didn't mean _that_," she said.

Rhishandri looked down at the bed. "Ah... sorry."

"For what?" Adara looked confused. "I just meant I wasn't trying to
embarrass you."

She squirmed, obviously not extremely embarrassed. "Oh. I understand."

Adara didn't, and she didn't think Rhi did either. "What's wrong?" she
asked.

"Nothing! I just... this isn't anything I'm used to dealing with. I don't
know how I feel about all of this... the...um, blood... and... other
things."

"Other things?" Adara asked, still lost but starting to get a glimmer of a
clue.

Rhishandri lowered her head, letting her hair hide her face, and whispered,
"No one ever... ever kissed me before."

Adara was silent for a moment. Truthfully, she hadn't meant to kiss her. It
wasn't the sort of thing she normally did, especially not with frightened,
innocent, incredibly young virgins. She had no idea why she'd done it; it
just seemed like the right thing to do at the time, like the most natural
thing in the world. Finally, she said, hesitantly, "I hope I didn't offend
you. It just seemed... right."

Rhi peeked up through her hair. "No!" She blushed, lowering her eyes again.
"I mean, no, I wasn't offended. Not at all."

Adara smiled at the girl's shyness... and her own relief. "Okay." She
cracked the door open enough to bring in the pitcher of cooling water and
the tray that the maid had left. "Here we go."

Rhishandri looked at the food and shuddered, going green. "You can have
mine."

Nodding, Adara said, "I thought that might be the case." She sat down to
eat and asked, "So, how do you feel compared to yesterday?"

Rhi frowned thoughtfully. "I... I'm not sure. After... um, afterwards,
yesterday, I felt-- Well, _wonderful_. Like I could do anything. This
morning I was, um, starving, I guess, and couldn't think about anything
but--" She broke off, blushing.  "Anyway, now I feel good... very good, but
not like yesterday."

"Interesting." Adara looked thoughtful. "I suspect you are some sort of
vampire -- many get more out of killing than just from blood. It's odd,
though, that you are awake during the day. Most vampires, especially new
ones, are asleep."

The girl seemed sad as she poured the water into the basin and began to
wash. "A vampire. I guess you're right. I'm not sure what I should do about
that."

Adara looked at her oddly. "What do you mean?"

Rhi stared down into the pinkened water. "I can't live without hurting
others. Maybe killing them."

She shook her head. "You don't seem to need to kill. As for the other..."
She shrugged. "It's not that hard. If need be, you can pay whores to let
you feed."

Rhishandri blushed and shook her head. "I... I couldn't stop. I thought I'd
killed you."

Adara nodded. "It's common for new vampires to lose control. You'll learn.
Until then..." She grinned. "There's me," she said, and Rhishandri's blush
brightened.

"I... but you can't do this everyday," the girl protested. "And why... why
would you want to? I have no right to do that."

"Why can't I?" Adara asked, with a raised eyebrow.

"It was so much... Once... once is bad enough, but over and over again?"

Another grin. "I can take care of myself. After the first couple of weeks
you shouldn't need as much."  She took the cloth and wiped the blood from
her neck. "Might not need that much tomorrow -- you didn't get that much
blood yesterday."

Rhishandri swallowed hard, looking down again. "But... should I try? If I'm
a monster, something so... dangerous... shouldn't I... do what's right?"

"Killing yourself wouldn't be right," Adara said firmly.

"Why not?"

"Someone who's strong is dangerous," Adara said. "Should they kill
themselves?"

"No, but someone who has to hurt others to live... who can lose control and
just kill and kill... that's different."

Adara shook her head. "Not really. Besides, you might not need to feed from
people -- animals might work."

Rhi looked a bit green, but nodded. "That's true, I guess. I just... never
expected to be like this."

"No one ever does," Adara said softly, her tone serious. "Life is change."

"Am I alive?" she asked, looking up at Adara with frightened eyes. "Am I
still a... a person? Or am I just a thing, a weapon without a hand to hold
it? A soulless monster?"

"You're a person," was the confident answer. "If you were just a _thing_,
you'd have died with him."

Rhishandri looked startled, as if she hadn't even thought of that. "I...
maybe you're right. Maybe that's why I didn't... die... with the rest of
his monsters."

"That's what he intended you to be," Adara said, "but you aren't."

"Oh," Rhishandri said, looking thoughtful. "I wonder why not?"

Adara shrugged. "No idea. He had something special in mind for you, though.
Maybe he didn't know as much as he thought he did."

Rhi nibbled her lower lip. "He messed up. Something went wrong. So, we
can't predict what I might be, what I might become. If my... control...
gets worse instead of better, when will you... make sure I'm not a danger
anymore?"

Adara smiled. She knew damned well what the girl was asking, but she chose
instead to answer a different question. "I won't let you do anything you
can't live with," she said. "But control is always worst just after the
change."

She relaxed a bit, and even smiled shyly up at Adara. "Thank you."

Adara slipped into her clothes. "Let's find Conor."

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