The Vampire's Crimson Kiss (Editing)

Chapter 16/Rise

I came too it was like a vail finally being lifted bringing the world to light. I felt the same kind of headach

"Health of the morning Mary" I began in the dark tongue "What is of the hour?"

"She speaks ? How much do you remember" Mary asked.

"Well I remember going to the Feast of fools. Drink, Venom. Oh I remember the music that was loud. You said it was ancient music from before our for fathers. It went right through you, you showed me how the familar's danced. After that I'm strangely empty like an unwritten page."

Mary smiled "So you remember wine, dancing, Do you remember kissing people do you remember kissing a woman?"

"No?!!" I said sitting bolt upright.

Mary came over "Do you remember we sat down and met those nice boys Fit and Fast?" she said handing me a glass of water.

"Vaguely. Like a memory on the horizon" I said. I practiced

"You don't remember Fast turned out to be a Vampire?"

"He did ?" I said back in English. "pushy, treacherous and demanding who could have guessed he was a vampire. Go figure. Did he"

"Discover the silver collar? No. Something else"

"Wait. I vaguely remember watching everyone started err Gurhouben each other. First some of them, then eventually the whole room was writhing like a pit of vipers slithering over each other thousands of them. People started making out , floundering like a net full of freshly caught ells. By the blood god I was horny, some thing stopped me."

"Yeah the love in at the end is traditional. You passed out, Duke Sadismann found you"

I moved slowly my head was hurting "I think he told me he loved me"

"Which could explain why he brought you his bedroom" said Mary.

"What?" I said.

I got up and looked around. I was in a new room. Large on a large bed raised up. 

"Did we?" I asked.

"I wasn't there but what little I got from you while I put you to bed was you didn't. He's desperately unsure, he could rip you to pieces, he could easily turn you, he is worried about the promise he made your father and more importantly to you. ".

I felt more relaxed for some reason.

Slowly my memory of the night recovered it self to me. 

"That's the sprit, welcome to my nerve garden"  Sadismann had said entering the large room and locking the door behind him. Sadismann came up and whispered in my ear. I felt his body against his hands touched my flesh like a fire's floating embers singeing my skin. I looked at him again, I suddenly knew that that I had been feeling something but feeling about it the wrong way. He looked at me, the way everywoman wants to be looked at. Then it hit me like a black smith's hammer on a forge.

"I want you to fuck me. I mean I want you to fuck me now, this instant very very hard" I had said in the dark tongue it was the only language which could nuance how deeply, how desperately I wanted it. It was like life was an magician's illusion and I had just figured out the trick.

"I swore an oath to your father that no man would defile you. How can I know this is what you what not what I want" had Sadismann said.

"I don't care, bleed me, kill me, turn me, fuck me, get a girl to do it for you, as long as you do it, as long as I can be buried in the darkness of your sanctuary, I need you, that's all that I want" I pleaded.

Sadismann had wondered for a moment

" to break my word would curse my coven and my house.I cannot touch you, I made and oath before the blood god.  and signed a contract that no man would touch you." 

"Grind your black beast in me, crush to my marrow" I moaned. It was a quote and it sounded better in the black tongue. To be honest anything crude,rude or vile sounded better in the black tongue.

"I signed a contract that no man would touch you." he had said.

We had kissed it had been so delightful, but he had never gone further.

"Did we sleep together?' I asked.

"The vampire's don't sleep - well not in beds." sand Mary "This is the only bed in his quarters."

I sat up realising what he normally used the bed for "Yuk".

"Where is he now ?" I said looking around the strange room.

"In the crypt hiding from daylight" said Mary. 

"Do you know where cub when to?" I said getting my senses back.

Many brought a dress "No"

"Go find her I had a dream she was in trouble" I said.