Ling'er was not the kind of female to enjoy being peeked at, ever! It wasn't just a by product of her culture, upbringing, or era. In fact it went against her nature as a hulijing.  Her people adorn themselves in the unsolicited and unwanted attention of others. It was what fueled the mischievous nature of the hulijing and gave them the power to take over and manipulate their victims. In other words, her very being craved the wandering eyes of lustful men and women except for the fact that she was trying to cleanse herself. Some say that she had it easy but it was quite difficult to refuse the temptation. Throughout her years of living and her travels she began to understand and use analogies to explain how utterly annoying and almost stoic it was to commit to her course. For her, the prodigy of greatness (be it good or evil),  to deny her urges was like a vampire wasting away because it refused to drink blood. if she understood its nature correctly, the vampire in question would simple dry out and die thus giving up the glorious opportunity to live forever. She had never met a vampire who was willing to forgo blood. Even the so called Chinese vampires, jiangshi would never willingly refuse to suck a victim's chi.  She didn't need blood to live or chi to thrive but sometimes when her temper got the best of her she was more than a little tempted to cut someone's heart out but only after torturing their bodies with endless pleasure and taunting their helpless souls. Just because she wanted to be a human didn't mean she never had these thought again.<br/><br/>Any other hulijing would have ceased the opportunity to devour the handsome young man that had accidentally peeked in on her or him; her kind often did not discriminate. Things would have been harder way back when but given the times nowadays, she wouldn't be surprised. Truth be told there was a part of her that wanted to respond by slowly walking out of the water towards the young man. The image of the water dripping from her naked body would have been tantalizing. Would have, except Ling'er had always been a little more discreet than what her nature wanted her to be. She didn't even like male hulijings looking at her. She preferred to bathe in privacy even as a child.  Growing up, she never even set foot in the public bath houses no mater how grimy things got for her. One could say deep down inside, she was rather shy about her body. She didn't like to bare it all. So naturally when the young man startled her, it was easier to resist the temptation of her current being. She screamed loudly but it was muffled by the fact that she also drove under. it took her several moments to realize that a human couldn't breath underwater for very long and if she insisted on staying under, she would inadvertently give herself away.<br/><br/>She popped her head out of the water again. Her brown eyes locked on him as if she was expecting him to just rush in with her.  when he hadn't rushed in, she relaxed a little just enough so that she didn't snarl at him. Foxes were natural protectors of themselves. Her eyes shifted as he asked if she would join him. If she had been in her fox form, she would have tilted her head and her ears would have twitched. He wasn't a normal person. He wasn't even human.<br/><br/>She sunk a little more into the water as the realization settled into her brain. He<i><b>wasn't</b></i>human. If she could tell that he wasn't human...all human, then could he tell that she was a fox demon?  Would she have to fight her way out of this one? She watched him carefully as the wheels in her head turned and she tried to think of a way out of her predicament. She could just dive under and swim away from him and sneak out but would that pose the possibility that they would meet again?  Would he expose her?<br/><br/>In the end she rose up just enough to expose her head. "Hey, it's not polite to peek on girls. What are you a pervert?"