Judith is unique to me. Without a doubt, perhaps the most constant force in my long life. Loyal but not dogged. Generous and yet not sacrificial. Not cruel and impossible to call kind.

In her youth she was hardly a paragon of the Spear. And tonight, perhaps even less so. And yet she has always been a force to be reckoned with. A monk without piety. ( Read more... )

Marius gripped the flailing and frenzied kindred.

Vincent flailed helplessly and yet with a minor miracle, found his fangs positioned over his arm and bit deep, drinking with need of Marius' ancient blood. And yet, not enough to sate him.

As he easily hoisted the creature from its victim, he felt another presence.  This one felt angry. Bursting ( Read more... )

A twisted shout and a raking of claws across carpeted floors. A cold tendril pulling too hard. She twisted and convulsed. Pulling away desperately, trying hard to get away.

Her mind lanced back to the numbers of necks, thighs and breasts she's bitten. Too many.

The number of throats slashed and hearts stopped. Too many.

The number of lives she'd ( Read more... )

He moves like a predator. Clearly exalted in his form and function. A lord indeed.

I think he would resent me, if he gave me a second thought. He tries to care little, but a sliver of my vitae swimming around his soul changes that. He cannot help but think well of me now, and I think that bothers him more than anything else. He loathes being servant ( Read more... )

Blood dripped from bare hands and blades. Pooling in the center of the room. All around them, the rain cleaned any sign of their slaughter. Bodies fell and slid overboard without consideration. The mast snapped in twain and the boat continued its throws.

And yet the room felt hot to the kindred. Sated and full of blood. Surrounded still by bodies ( Read more... )

Dante held his tongue as the kindred railed against his family. He gripped the table, ready to crush the smug face of the Brujah Prince. He was calmed from his anger. But that did not stop the raw rage he felt. The betrayal of all of this ( Read more... )

Dante sat in consideration. Outside the cities raged and railed for justice and the destruction of the red menace. He felt her touch as she wrapped her arms around him and he wrapped a massive limb around her shoulders to comfort her. Taking a long drag from a cigarette and passing it to her. Running a hand over her back in a slow ponderous and ( Read more... )

Judith's voice was even and well practiced. And she read from the books before her with a crisp practice. Absorbing chunks of text at a time and speaking the words with a poetic pace that never broke stride or disrupted the pattern of the text ( Read more... )

Marius drew his fingers slowly down the soft, smooth surface. Drinking in the sensation as it translated to him its texture and the infinitesimal details of its surface to him. Tiny imperfections and thousands of minute cracks ( Read more... )

Marius rests peacefully enough. Creatures of his age never move unless spurred by an outside force ( Read more... )