With the smallest of organisms first, the rodents and pigeons, then the cats and rats and dogs the piercing chill of pressing air swept the streets of...it’s life graduating to the beggars. I was joined in the necropolis by the growing souls of the victims of the night. I turned to look at my car, part of me still wishing that I could turn my back on this darkness and cold and seek it’s shelter from the chill. Sedately the moon neared the western horizon, slowly the humans shook themselves from. Alec showed up only a couple of minutes later.After greeting Alec said, “Thank you for setting this up, Sir. I have a lot of questions, and I should tell you that I’m not sure about the outcome of tonight. I’m trying to be very unbiased or whatever it is I need to be to preserve my relationship with Taylor, but that’s hard for me. I realize how conditioned I’ve been to believe that a traditional relationship is the only ‘normal’ one and that relationships outside of that are abnormal.”Dave. ”“You never understood our relationship,” Eddie responded sadly.“Can’t say that I did.”“When I first met him, he was still really handsome. Like an aging Adonis. Rachel actually recommended I be with him, but I wasn’t exactly reluctant about it. She told me it would be cool if I decided not to. So I wasn’t pushed into it. But I found him incredibly charming and funny. I think when he got fat and jowly, that’s what kept my interest. His death ... affects me, Joe. But I think more the mortality. Before I couldeven draw a breath, he did the same to the left, resulting in anotherscream, causing me to almost pass out from pain, and lack of breath.Master was now almost laughing as he came up to me, and told me to relax,the "introductions" were over. He gently removed the gag from my mouth,and then unhooked my wrists from the wall. With a warning that thismight hurt worse than when they were attached, he motioned Paige over,and she raised my camisole once again. With that, he quickly.