<strong>Sabien Theunissen</strong><br/><br/>The vampire nodded to herself, taking a drag of the cigarette before beginning in the direction that it sounded like the voice was coming from, taking care<em>not</em>to move quietly.  It went against her nature, but she did not wish to startle the girl.  Speaking around the stub she called out, "so you are unaware of the allegations of your own lineage...curiouser and curiouser, as Alice was wont to say."  She paused in the doorway, considering a moment before following the scent of blood.  "You see...there are myths of my people and a number of so-called prophecies that claim that one would arise with an impossible lineage.  For centuries, every time something strange or inexplicable was encountered, the unlearned would cry out that it was the legend, the myth...that the prophecies were true and that everything would end.  Inevitably, though, it was usually found to be a magician or one who was turned, or a charlatan or similar such ilk."<br/><br/>She takes a long drag and lets the smoke out slowly, moving more cautiously as she comes closer.  "Ah...and once more the rumors abound about the impossible, the foretold.  Somewhere in the city, they say, there exists a being such as the world has never seen before.  A child born of the world of light and of darkness, a child of eve, the line of man, but also a child of Lilith, the so-called mother of the night, the one mythically responsible for bringing my kind into the world so many aeons ago.  Imagine the surprise I had in finding your trail of blood, even as I moved to downplay the rumors.  Blood of man, yet not. Blood of vampire, yet not.  Perhaps...could it be...blood of the foretold dhampir?"  She smiled a bit into the darkness, "or am I yet here one some flight of fancy?  Seeing things that are not there or missing some element of what has occurred?  More likely, I suspect, that someone was merely fed on in extremis, giving some element of vampiric vitality without e'er actually causing one to cross the threshold between life and death.  Would such be possible?  Wouldn't your yourself wish to know more about what you are?"