<span style="color: #BF0000"> Serene went up the staircase and then turned to a door. She pushed it open quite gently for who she was. "Devia, my darling little von. Vere 'ave 'ou been." She walked in and turned towards the window. "I zought I told 'ou not to leave vizout telling me first. Is zis because 'ou vish for punishment? But of course not, 'oo could vish for zat?" She then turned around to face the young girl. There was a sinister look in her eyes, but it was covering the look of pleasure that had just come across her from changing her newest victim. She waited for the girl to answer and then stopped. She held up her hand in a gesture meaning silence.<br/><br/>"Oh! Do you 'ear zat?" She paused. From down the stairs came some of the most unearthly sounds of breaking bones and changing flesh of the man downstairs that she had just stolen the soul from. Serene was used to the sound, being as she had changed others before this one. The sounds were not audible to the human ears, but a vampire could hear almost anything and these sounds were gruesome and disturbing. "Zat...zat sound is music to my ears. Don't 'ou zink so my dear? Someday 'ou vill 'ear zose sounds and zey vill come because of 'ou. And 'ou vill enjoy it, just like I do! Now, back to earlier conversation, vere ver 'ou?"  </span>