<div class="floatleft">(http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n534/MaidensElf/imagesqtbnANd9GcTqc6LS-8MlYsXdXeA658iq72OyvkNoFXde2ayTdk7B-dFeKWk0.jpg)</div><br/><div align="center">Arman Mazzaferro (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=132874.msg5913952#msg5913952)<br/>Unknown</div><br/><br/><hr/><br/>As Marianna joins him on the bed Arman closes his eyes to just listen to the music and enjoy the sensation of her being beside him on the bed. When she speaks of being a human during the revolutionary war his eyes snap open and he turns to look at her. The music is suddenly forgotten and is simply background noise as she goes on to say that she had lived not from Castle Hill. When she tells him that he reminds her of a suitor she had his jaw drops open in shock as the realization hits him as to why she reminds him so much of the woman he could not bring himself to kill. It takes him a moment to close his mouth. He gets a kind of sorrowful and wistful smile on his face as he reaches over to take her hand in his very much like he had done on many occasions during the weeks he had pursued her so long ago and looks directly into her eyes.<br/><br/>”I’m so sorry, Darling. I was only about a century into my new life when we met. After the festival where we enjoyed the food, the music, and danced under the moonlight I could not bear to see you anymore nor I could I explain why to you then. I had not yet learned to feed without killing. I wanted you so badly but could not stand the idea of ending your life. Leaving you to live out your life was my only option. Had I taken you I would have feed from you and it would have killed you. I never came to see you again because I wanted to spare your life. I did not realize until just now who you are as I never expected the only woman I ever loved to have been turned so would survive the centuries and then to end up here in this house with me.”<br/><br/>Arman simply gazes at Marianna, into her eyes for several moments. He turns his whole body to face her and the hand not holding hers comes up to caress her check before just remaining there on her face with his thumb at her chin and his middle finger’s tip resting just behind her ear. ”I am so sorry your turning was so unpleasant and you find it so distasteful. Had I known I could have turned others at that time I would have asked you to join me but never would have forced it on you. Perhaps as Muriel has suggested you simply were meant to be one of us and we were meant to be together and you being turned in such a fashion was fate’s cruel way of correcting the error of me not knowing how to turn you myself. With me it would have been a glorious and tender moment not a horrid experience. I am truly glad that you have not lost the qualities you had as a mortal quick caused me to fall for you so hard. It was more your gentleness and compassion that drew me to you than your physical beauty but that is certainly an added bonus. I don’t know if we can pick up where we left off so long ago, but I truly relish the idea of getting to know you and possibly falling in love with you again. This time you can rest assured that I will not disappear on you again. Please say that you can forgive me.” He gazes into her eyes and the look of lust is nearly completely replaced by an almost pleading expression. Clearly every word is the truth and very heartfelt and he desperately wants/needs her forgiveness.