How do you like yours?”She giggled.“I am SO totally not believing this. I’ve been kidnapped, he’s bought me ice cream to enjoy out on the porc..., and now he’s going to cook me a steak supper. The rare side of medium, please. Do I get a beer while I’m cutting up the tomatoes?”“If you like; I’ve got some wine but you’ll have to forgive the beer glasses; I didn’t get anything smaller.”“A beer first, then a glass of wine with the steak?”“You’ve got it.”I took her into the cabin, showed her the food. Alice pushes open the doors to a balcony room above the main dance floor full of everyone from the flat plus even more. I walk over to the balcony edge and look down to the see the people dancing and drinking away the end of the month pay cheque in the converted theatre. Looking back toward our private dance floor seeing the worn vintage leather chesterfield couches lined against the panelled wood wall a small bar with a young girl mixing up some cocktails, a stripper pole and podium currently. Designed so that we can run from a utility supply, but if that should fail, or be dirty, the generator kicks in automatically, and the inverter ensures phase continuity,” he said. “You follow all that?”“Yeah, I did two years of an electrical engineering degree, and I am a Computer Science lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering at UNSW,” I said. “All looks pretty good.”“Yeah, for bigger shows, with more lighting and more amplifiers, we have units going up to 120 kVA. But from here, we. .. a time that stretched accommodatingly for me, but that she and anyone else on the street likely had no time to really register at all.Perhaps, if I had truly allowed the blood beast inside to take control of me, there would have been no hesitation on my part. Perhaps, if I had taken all that Ka'lath had been trying to teach me into account, I would simply have turned her around and sunk my fangs into her neck, thereby ending any struggles she might have made before they began. Perhaps... but.