<span style="font-style: italic">Valor watched the woman walk away from him. His throat was burning but he ignored it for the time being. His violet hued eyes observed the sway of her hips as she walked. Perhaps they would meet again one day. When her heartbeat increased he had felt it. He also heard the reluctance in her voice to have their encounter cut so short. Little did she realize it was for the best though. When she finally slipped out of sight he looked up at the moon.<br/><br/>If one were watching him and blinked he would have seemingly disappeared in the time it took them to do so. Vampires were fast. Faster than humans were by a lot. Not only were they fast they were also very good at avoiding obstacles while running at blindingly quick speeds. It was natural instincts. Or at least that's what they were taught. Dipping and darting around low hanging branches and over bushes and all sorts of other things he quickly made his way out of the forest. <br/><br/>Next to the forest were the tall walls of the castle city. He blinked. His tongue snaked out of his lips and he tasted the air. The woman had come this way. She must live in the city. There was nothing inherently wrong with that but she had gone a different direction than he. Perhaps she knew a short cut he didn't know about. But he doubted she had beaten him to the city. Undoubtedly she was still out in the forest. But how had she gotten out of the walls of the city? There must have been some hole in the wall. He walked around and indeed found a hole he could fit through. There was no way the guard would let him into the city at this time of the night. <br/><br/>Once he was in the city he was greeted with a million different scents. Ignoring the scents for the time being he started to go but then he caught the scent again. The scent led towards the castle, but he held off going there immediately. Intrigued Valor followed the scent and stared in the shadows. A pair of guards stood in front of an entryway that opened into the front yard of the castle. When he looked in the opposite direction Valor slipped in behind him. <br/><br/>There weren't as many guards in the front yard of the castle as he would have expected. He followed the scent to the side of the yard. Directly above him was a balcony. It looked like she had scaled the wall and got into her room this way. There was a guard not too far from where he was but the guard looked like he would sleep through cannon fire. Of course he realized something as he stood there beneath the balcony. If this was her bedroom she was undoubtedly someone very important. Was it possible she was the princess? But if she was the princess why would she have been roaming the forest and doing so without any protection from vampires? <br/><br/>Valor picked up a small rock on the ground and threw it at the balcony. And then he flipped his lute around so it was on his chest and began playing. He wanted to impress her. She had seemed quite taken with his music before, so perhaps she would be now.<br/><br/>It wasn't until she appeared that he began singing the very popular love song "Your Dove." It was a song about unrequited love between a crow and a dove and how their love could and should never be but they both wanted it to happen. The song was so popular minstrels sang it in the court of the Valic Dominion even though it was composed by a human. Some called the song a unifying song for humans and vampires, and it was hard to disagree. <br/><br/>Valor wondered what his end game here was though. He knew he wanted to feed from her, but he also realized that wasn't all he wanted.</span>