*Oona’s POV*

Juliet had been explaining to me why she felt marriage was a poor substitute for the bond that my kind shared when we took a mate, when a realization had come to me suddenly: Juliet was an energy vampire! While Juliet had originally been a human, her maker had been an incubus before he was bitten by that bloodsucking vampire. To make a seed was a process that involved energy!

I started getting more and more hopeful and excited as my mind raced ahead. Juliet wasn’t a succubus, but perhaps she could be mated to Andy as well, why not? She could manipulate energy, though very differently. If she could make a seed correctly, offer it to Andy, and accept his in turn, if he was able to learn to make one, would it not work?

I felt a small stirring of hope I wouldn’t dare to acknowledge. Perhaps, if Juliet could share the same bond with Andy, if they could be mated as my kind were… Would she permit me to be involved in Andy’s life? I ran out of the bathroom, I had to ask Sebastian! He had to know something!

I sped into the living room, only to find both cats sitting in the corner, rather aloof. Penemue and Sebastian, oddly, were sitting next to each other on the couch, and exchanged worried glances. I wondered what could possibly have caused them to have such a sudden change of heart?

Notes

mini-chappy

sorry, it's the best i can do right now. my little girl is still very sick, though possibly improving/responding, and another one is showing early signs. not a lot of causes of infectious neuro disease in lizards, especially one that's going to be easily horizontally transmittable. kind of a nightmare situation, considering that i have quite a few geckos.

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side-note: excited to go see Cradle of Filth & the Butcher Babies in Seattle on Tuesday at the Showbox. i've seen CoF before, quite some time ago, and they were totally sick, so i'm excited. see you there? :o)