OOC: This thread is closed for Danjutsu and Miss_Shy_Newcastle. It will feature non-consent and other harder kinks. Readers of a more timid persuasion may be better off looking away now. For the rest, welcome and I hope you enjoy!
It began six weeks ago, almost to the day. Six weeks of boiling blood and biting need. Six weeks of controlled agony. But soon, very soon, he would find his release. Soon he would have her in his grasp and then he would make her feel his pain keen and deep. Does she suspect? He does not think so. No, too naive, too innocent to believe the world could contain such as him. And even if she might, in a fanciful moment, believe that his kind might exist, she could not even begin to contemplate the depths to his depravity and how far he will go to ensure his survival.
He first spied her at a book signing in a small town outside Greater London. The signing itself was of no interest to him but the bookshop was one of note as a repository of manuscripts on the art of Ku Tao Shi, known to Western practitioners as Transfiguration. A magic, of sorts, but bound up in physical laws. The scrolls themselves would seem, to the uninitiated, to be complex but illiterate scrawl. He found their contents absolutely fascinating.
Reclining in an old, musty armchair, he became aware of her presence like a new scent in the room. The manuscript became, all of a sudden, entirely unimportant. He had to know the source of this most delicious morsel. It did not take him long to discover her, stood patiently in a queue of a dozen or so fans bearing some new hardback for the author's off hand scribble.
She glanced at him once or twice but having committed her features to memory he was overcome with a sudden, burning need and immediately withdrew to privacy.
Withdrew but not retreated. His minions were set immediately to work discovering who she was, where she lived, her life, her passions, and her secrets. It's amazing what one can discover about a person from public records. Imagine how much more might be available to one with arcane means.
The burning grew inside him, something kindled that could not be quenched by food or drink and even his usual depravities did little to take the edge. His minions suffered his wrath more than once 'til one happened upon a passage in a leather-bound tome kept locked in a room by itself. The tome spoke of a time of transformation: a death and a new life. Detailed in a sidebar, ingredients and instructions for a foul concoction to control the infernal fires now alight within him.
Calmer, but still smouldering, he sought her out again. This time, the theatre. A contrived circumstance involving a broken down car, threatening weather, and a convenient passing has him escorting his prey to the theatre. He is polite, charming even, and ever so generous with his time and his money. The performance is passable, even by his standards, but he barely notices the display. She has his attention and his violent longing threatens to break loose towards the end. He excuses himself on grounds of illness with the most sincere of apologies and a promise to make up for his poor manners in abandoning her there. All lies, of course, but he is a master of deceit.
But there is one final catch, stated clearly in the tome that speaks of his imminent demise. For his new life to take place, she must be untouched by human hands, a virgin. He must know for sure.
A blood fly is a nasty little creature similar to a mosquito, though larger, and bound to its master's will. A sampling of her blood, taken overnight while she slept, gave him the final confirmation that he required; a drop placed into a balefire flame, the flash of gold and the scent of rose, his hungry gaze fixed on her unwaveringly.
So the trap was laid. An invitation to dinner at his mansion in the country, all printed most exquisitely on white card and inked in gold, with a promise of a car there and back and a room of her own for the night, should she desire. A mild enchantment on the card to bring a sensation of joy, even excitement, to the one who holds it. All in the guise of being his apology for leaving her alone at the theatre.
Which part of it worked he could not say but she was on the way to his home right this minute. Six weeks of waiting, almost over. And none too soon...
He stands patiently at the head of the wide marble stairs leading up into the main house as the sun touches the tops of the trees that border his expansive estate. Flanked either side by his house staff, all done up in their smartest uniforms, he watches the limousine crawl up the long, winding drive and round the stone fountain in the courtyard.
His butler, a wrinkled stick of a man, glides down the steps silently with an ease that belies his apparent age, ready to open the door to the car on her arrival. On his left, the head of his household glares through wire-rim spectacles at one of the maids for fidgeting while on show, apologising under her breath, "My apologies, m'lord, I will deal with her later."
All magnanimous smiles, resplendent in a white dinner jacket and trousers, looking every bit the young lord, he acknowledges, "See that you do." For, behind his boyish good looks, underneath the features that might tell a story of twenty-some years, resides a demon with a burning need to be reborn this forty-third time in the last seven hundred years.
It began six weeks ago, almost to the day. Six weeks of boiling blood and biting need. Six weeks of controlled agony. But soon, very soon, he would find his release. Soon he would have her in his grasp and then he would make her feel his pain keen and deep. Does she suspect? He does not think so. No, too naive, too innocent to believe the world could contain such as him. And even if she might, in a fanciful moment, believe that his kind might exist, she could not even begin to contemplate the depths to his depravity and how far he will go to ensure his survival.
He first spied her at a book signing in a small town outside Greater London. The signing itself was of no interest to him but the bookshop was one of note as a repository of manuscripts on the art of Ku Tao Shi, known to Western practitioners as Transfiguration. A magic, of sorts, but bound up in physical laws. The scrolls themselves would seem, to the uninitiated, to be complex but illiterate scrawl. He found their contents absolutely fascinating.
Reclining in an old, musty armchair, he became aware of her presence like a new scent in the room. The manuscript became, all of a sudden, entirely unimportant. He had to know the source of this most delicious morsel. It did not take him long to discover her, stood patiently in a queue of a dozen or so fans bearing some new hardback for the author's off hand scribble.
She glanced at him once or twice but having committed her features to memory he was overcome with a sudden, burning need and immediately withdrew to privacy.
Withdrew but not retreated. His minions were set immediately to work discovering who she was, where she lived, her life, her passions, and her secrets. It's amazing what one can discover about a person from public records. Imagine how much more might be available to one with arcane means.
The burning grew inside him, something kindled that could not be quenched by food or drink and even his usual depravities did little to take the edge. His minions suffered his wrath more than once 'til one happened upon a passage in a leather-bound tome kept locked in a room by itself. The tome spoke of a time of transformation: a death and a new life. Detailed in a sidebar, ingredients and instructions for a foul concoction to control the infernal fires now alight within him.
Calmer, but still smouldering, he sought her out again. This time, the theatre. A contrived circumstance involving a broken down car, threatening weather, and a convenient passing has him escorting his prey to the theatre. He is polite, charming even, and ever so generous with his time and his money. The performance is passable, even by his standards, but he barely notices the display. She has his attention and his violent longing threatens to break loose towards the end. He excuses himself on grounds of illness with the most sincere of apologies and a promise to make up for his poor manners in abandoning her there. All lies, of course, but he is a master of deceit.
But there is one final catch, stated clearly in the tome that speaks of his imminent demise. For his new life to take place, she must be untouched by human hands, a virgin. He must know for sure.
A blood fly is a nasty little creature similar to a mosquito, though larger, and bound to its master's will. A sampling of her blood, taken overnight while she slept, gave him the final confirmation that he required; a drop placed into a balefire flame, the flash of gold and the scent of rose, his hungry gaze fixed on her unwaveringly.
So the trap was laid. An invitation to dinner at his mansion in the country, all printed most exquisitely on white card and inked in gold, with a promise of a car there and back and a room of her own for the night, should she desire. A mild enchantment on the card to bring a sensation of joy, even excitement, to the one who holds it. All in the guise of being his apology for leaving her alone at the theatre.
Which part of it worked he could not say but she was on the way to his home right this minute. Six weeks of waiting, almost over. And none too soon...
He stands patiently at the head of the wide marble stairs leading up into the main house as the sun touches the tops of the trees that border his expansive estate. Flanked either side by his house staff, all done up in their smartest uniforms, he watches the limousine crawl up the long, winding drive and round the stone fountain in the courtyard.
His butler, a wrinkled stick of a man, glides down the steps silently with an ease that belies his apparent age, ready to open the door to the car on her arrival. On his left, the head of his household glares through wire-rim spectacles at one of the maids for fidgeting while on show, apologising under her breath, "My apologies, m'lord, I will deal with her later."
All magnanimous smiles, resplendent in a white dinner jacket and trousers, looking every bit the young lord, he acknowledges, "See that you do." For, behind his boyish good looks, underneath the features that might tell a story of twenty-some years, resides a demon with a burning need to be reborn this forty-third time in the last seven hundred years.