We shall grow to be the closer perhaps? For now, I am offering myself to you. Will you refuse me?"She raised her hand, placing her palm on my cheek. I... doing so she raised the covers and once more I could see her perfect little breasts. I sucked in my breath and turned my head to lightly kiss her palm. I reached for her, putting my arm around her, my hand behind her head and pulled her face to mine, answering her with a kiss."I will have you my darling, and consider myself most fortunate."Our. Most of those craft had been small pleasure vessels and their crews, made up of day sailors, were ill prepared for what befell them. Mai Woo showed me the numbers and it was appalling. Over two hundred men, women, and children had been transported by the networks and the pirates had killed nearly eighty percent of them. Those that they had kept had been women and they had faired just as poorly as those that had been slain. They had been raped and abused and turned into whores. Learning this. Warned us that you were a problem child."I sighed as I awaited the usual lecture about 'behaviour' and 'manners', Mrs. Wilson handed me a coke, gave her husband a glass of what looked like scotch and sat down on the couch with a glass of clear liquid in her hands."Which was why we agreed to take you." Mrs. Wilson smiled over at me."Huh?" I responded brilliantly."It's like this," Mr. Wilson laughed, "I know that you've probably been shoved from home to home, you've had to share rooms or been. But how did they fit together? All I could do was think and by the time the gondola took me down to the skyisland below my head was pounding from the effort. It set me down near my house and I went to pay the driver, noticing how slender their fingers looked as they reached out from under their cloak for the notes. With a rising sense of dread I flicked back their hood and my heart froze. It was her, the vamp. She smiled at me as she took my wrist in hers, an iron grip that I knew I’d never be.