<strong>Sabien Theunissen</strong><br/><br/>She shrugs slightly, making a dismissive gesture, "if such makes you more comfortable, you may call me whatever you wish.  As for my fields of study..."  She considers for a bit, "I was sold to the gentleman who...made me what I am today at perhaps five years of age.  I was there to study and tend to his library and care for the house.  When I reached my mid-twenties, he decided I had reached what was likely to be my optimal age and made me his, how did he call it...bloodwife.  As his wife I continued my duties as before, save with a handful of new additional duties as well, but books and study were still the majority of my life."<br/><br/>"After his...untimely demise at the hands of a group of hunters, and properly seeing to his blood price, I resumed my studies much as they were before, save that I've expanded my library to include a number of topics he could not have dreamt to see.  That and swordplay have been my existence for over four hundred years now.  Knowledge to save mortal and vampire alike, and violence to prune those that get out of hand."  Her eyes slide over to the officer as she smiles, "much like yourself, I suppose, save that I operate as judge and executioner on those occasions that it is necessary.  Something of a blessing and a curse, really.  The ability to see the scales balanced, but the guilt of having done so."