<span style="font-style: italic">I..uh...leaving? No!"</span><br/><br/>"Lies!" Pearl hissed. She had chosen to let this one live and now he was trying to leave. Without her. And now he lied to her as if she did not have eyes?? As if she was stupid! It was an insult! Pearl took the offered shells in her hand and crushed them in her grip. She did not want his..his..trinkets!<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">what if I said, I can help get that awful collar off your neck?" </span><br/><br/>Surely this mouse was grasping at straws. She had tried.<span style="font-style: italic">For years</span>. He could do nothing. She turned from him, returning to her victim. Naomi lay on the sand, her life slipping away, but there was no fear there, only bliss. Pearl sat upon the sand, Naomi cradled in her lap, and returned to her feeding.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Because I can... IF you promise not to kill me," he insisted. and then added "and promise not to tell, or let anybody else know where I am," he insisted. "This will be our secret!?" he grinned and nodded hoping to coax her into nodding along! *"We can be friends!" he insisted. *"We can go sailing, and talk, and go on adventures together," </span><br/><br/>Pearl paused in her feeding to glare at Jack, if she could have stabbed him with her eyes she would have. "You can keep your secrets and adventures." Really, he would have neither when she was finished with him. Although, something did pull at her. Friends. She did long for companionship and this man, as much as she did not trust him, could communicate with her.<br/><br/>Pearl lapped at the woman's neck, she was being unnecessarily messy with her meal. Perhaps to frighten the man. She eyed him from over the woman's neck, a deliberate, hungry stare. She wanted to get her point across. She wanted him to squirm. "Even if you can remove this..." She touched the golden collar. "I can not leave with you. I am a *<span style="font-style: italic">Vampire</span>*" She spoke the work in her accented English. "The sun weakens me, if it does not kill." Another lap at her neck. "And my Master will come looking for me." Pearl added with a nonchalant shrug.<br/><br/>This mouse had so many words and yet no answers for her. He wanted to leave? Fine. He could leave, but she would feed from him first. Perhaps the ecstasy given to him from a feeding would be enough to make him stay, or the guilt of knowing she was trapped on this island.<br/><br/>"I will let you leave." Pearl stood, dropping the dead body to the ground. "But I will feed from you." Surely he did not trust her. She could smell it. "I do not lie, Jack." Her tongue spoke around the unfamiliar name. "Not like you." In a moment she was before him, caressing his face and looking up at him with her, now, innocent eyes. "If you struggle," Pearl whispered. "I will kill you." and she sank her fangs into the pulsing vein at his neck.