<em>Under her deft lips, somehow, the vampire's body seems to grow warmer, and, pressed against him, the sea nymph feels his heart stir again, but he pauses in his attentions to whisper back to her.<br/><br/>"You haven't the faintest? To never know the joy of sunlight again? To play in a running stream? Never again to look at another without the stirring of hunger?"</em>