Oh, no!  Sorry to see you go, Rhapsody!<br/><br/>(For the record, here are the contents of my deleted post.  Thufir brought to my attention that there was no blood.)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=35462.msg1887061#msg1887061">Quote from: Muse on 16-05-2009, 20:04:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Perfection is a tool with many uses.  <br/><br/>Heaven may have given Bast the body of a celestial concubine, and Luna may have chosen to freeze her forever in one of her life's moments of greatest perfection, but it was her mother who taught her not just to take pride in that gift, but that pride was the key to the power of that gift.  <br/><br/><i>Beauty is power.  <br/><br/>I am beautiful, therefore I am powerful.</i>  Those words gave Bast the strength to do what she knew she had to do next.  She'd never taken a human heart's blood, or even killed a man with teeth rather than claw's or blade, but the child might be here, and she was Bast, and she could play this part she'd stumbled into better than any other could.  <br/><br/>The Albatross fluttered softly down from the windowsill to an unateneded corpse in a soft glow of moonlight and stretched out into a femenine form.  Stalking out of the moonlight on all fours came a half nude perfection that embodied ever uncollared woman in the south who ever looked at a man with smoky eyes and wondered if he was the one?  With the wicked humor of Bast, but the throaty purr of Luna emerging from the body of Venus contained by silver tatoos into Bast's likeless, the girl inquired, "Starting the party so soon, my lord?"  She ran her tongue along her lips, then bent down, chin sinking down her cleavage to run her tongue up along the edge of a wound as she gathered up some blod and looked back into the prisoner's eyes as she licked her pillow lips clean.  Then she pouted softly.  "Blood get's cold so fast, my lord.  May I nibble on him while you talk?  Just a foot maybe?  Please?"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>