Listening to him she couldn’t believe his daftness. Her eyes narrowed and her jaw shut with a click. Her voice darkened and lowered to a dangerous tone as her eyes gleamed red. “Perhaps… I have taken too many liberties with you…”<br/><br/>Standing up to her full height in the bath she felt no shame as her long tendrils seemed to lengthen. They grew long and extended throughout the bath covering the once dark crimson water into a sea of black. The tendrils grew until they surrounded him.<br/><br/>Her power began to swirl around her as the lit candles couldn’t handle the pressure and one by one they began to snuff out.<br/><br/>“Humanity, is a wonderful thing. I do not doubt your capabilities. But your laziness and pure distaste towards an effort on my behalf to keep you alive in this world… is most unsettling.”<br/><br/>She hissed out lowly as stood dangerously still.  “Humanity may be capable of what you say but I am not asking you to live in a human world, now am I?” She retorted with malice.<br/><br/>“You survived tonight but I have armies who want my head on a plate. So guess who, in the eyes of the supernatural world, my weakest link is?!”<br/><br/>It was him. He was an easy way to get to her. In many ways… she only wanted to keep him safe but he thought her daft and unreasonable. She would show him unreasonable if he so chose to defy her.<br/><br/>“I have a soft spot for humans. I do not pity them… and I do not think lowly of them. My adopted sister, Maven, is human. However… many powerful creatures in the Aristocracy would not agree with my beliefs.”<br/><br/>That was why she treated him kindly… that was why he wasn’t treated like a dog. It is why she gave him power and the freedom to do as he pleased. She tried in so many ways to make his life comfortable… but he had forgotten the golden rule.<br/><br/>It soon grew dark in the room as her crimson eyes seemed to glow in the darkness.<br/><br/>“If you want to die, then so be it….” The long raven strands of hair began to surface out of the water as they whipped violently against the waves. Seven  whip like strands lunged for him and wrapped around his wrist torso, neck and even his ankles. The last one stood pointedly…. A few inches from his nose.<br/><br/>The grip on his body was like a vice and holding him in place she walked through the pool of water to move closer to him.<br/>“But you will not be my weakness… or I will dispose of you myself. Do I make myself clear?”<br/>The sharp whip like tendril in front of his face sharpened to a point and the whips around his body tightened. She did not want to hurt him but he forgot his place.<br/><br/>He belonged to her. She was kind enough to grant him his humanity and basically freedom to do as he pleased. But he would need to always remember who gave that to him… it would never matter how amazing of a human he became. She was Queen and he was her Retainer.<br/>“Do not mistake my kindness as weakness Alex. I have high hopes for you… but if you keep disappointing me… I fear our relationship will vastly change.”<br/><br/>Her anger was clear. He had upset her and she was going to reward him!<br/><br/>It made her irritation know no bounds.<br/><br/>Her hair began to lift him out of the water as the tendril around his neck tightened enough to cause his airway to close.<br/><br/>Looking up she noticed what she was doing and she instantly let go. She wasn’t ashamed of herself… she just didn’t like his attitude. Walking past him she exited the water as her hair returned to its normal length, the candles were lit once more and her aura calmed down a fraction.<br/><br/>Tonight was supposed to be a good night…