Sylvie took a few mouthfuls of blood quickly and instantly felt the relief in her veins as they refreshed and brought her ability back to normal. “I was wrong about the first part. You see, the rain se with us at the dam and ke was the sed half. I repyed that the most because I was looking for the one.” Sylvie leaned up and kissed Casey. “You are the one, I think I said it before..but the girl of my dreams.”

  “Still good to hear, no matter how many times you tell me.” Casey licked the residual blood from her lips.

  After polishing off one full bottle of blood, Sylvie resumed her position of ying in Casey’s p. “This is going to be strao describe.” She snorted when the snaps of the pstic blue bows resumed. “What's more is that I don’t know how the first part ects to where we became a couple.”

  “Snort all you want to. This will teach you to put me in a pink bow.” Casey tickled Sylvie’s tummy pyfully. “Do your best, I am sure I will uand.”

  Reversing the vision in her mind to the beginning, Sylvie’s eyes rotated to half moons before she began. “I touched your hand and thought I saw a lifetime. Mine. At the time I didn’t think much about it, the feeling was so loving and serehat I didn’t sider that it was impossible for me.”

  “So that means the vision was wrong at the beginning.” Casey affirmed.

  Shaking her head, “I saw the eclipse for the first time the night I left Rose. That is when I khe whole thing was real.” Sylvie paused for a breath, while Casey kept sing out the rubber bands for her fun bow idea. “Which means somehow the first part was real.”

  “Do you ever get split visions like that, or was this the first?” Casey inquired.

  Reag for the sed bottle, Sylvie extended her d wiggled the cork free. “Yes, on occasion. It is pretty rare though.” She sipped from the new bottle and offered it to Casey.

  “No, I am alright. You drink it.” Casey finished her little joke and rather than tig her partner, opted to run her nails lightly arouummy. “First part?”

  Sylvie took two gulps a into detail. “It was a sunny day. A fair-sized group of people on a ke, pying and having a piibsp; Behind the group was a three-story ke house that melded into the woodline in an effort to not disturb the nature around it. I saw a lifetime - their lifetimes. It was like I walked in the shade with them.” Sylvie paused. “But…now..” She sighed, “I don’t think the shadow was me.” Sylvie turned and sat up so Casey could see her face-to-face. “I think the shadow was you, Casey.” Sylvie reached up and took her partner's cheeks into her hands. “The vision was never mio try and force, or look for. It was yours, your decision. The ohat you didn’t get because…” Sylvie stopped talking and just looked into her llowing eyes.

  Both due to her promise and refusal to get upset, Casey let the initial rush of fear and ay pass over her like a cold breeze. Sylvie was here, cupping her cheeks tenderly in reassurance for the news she’d half delivered a Casey figure out the other half. “I…I.” Casey began but then pulled Sylvie’s to her lips and slowly kissed her lover's open palms. “The three-story house was the giveaway.” Casey whispered. “My dad built it with the iion of it being part of the enviro, all parts of the house were made to break down. He always told me that we were just visiting the ke and the woods...time takes back all works.” Casey absentmindedly ehen smiled. “If you think I was in the shadows, then that was the summer I had chi pox.” She ughed, “I was the only one who couldn’t be around others of my age, because they hadn’t been exposed to it.” Casey resumed clipping bows in Sylvie’s hair for something to stop the nervousness. “You saw two choices? Whether or not I lived in sunlight with those who loved me, allowio live a full life with children or choosing a life in the dark with someone.” She paused and grinned, “That someone being you.”

  Nodding and looking down, “I took that choice from you, Casey. I took advantage of a friend whose mind wasn’t in the best pbsp; I forced the image that I … I …. I … Oh Casey..” Sylvie leaned up and grabbed her partner around the neck, huggiight.

  Dropping the little bows from her hands, Casey didn’t hesitate to return the hug and start kissing Sylvie gently on the neck. “No..no…” Casey recalled with plete crity the way she became a vampire. “You didn’t charm me, you gave me a pce to stay when I was lost.” She pulled bad wiped the tears from her own cheeks as well as Sylvie’s. “I made my decision.” Casey’s voice got low and f, “I choose you, Taini.” She slid her fingers under Sylvie’s and then pulled her into a kiss, exging the little bit of blood Sylvie still had in her mouth before pulling away. “My…My…Taini Miakoda. sweetheart, .” Casey quietly sighed and smiled as Sylvie’s eyes rolled to their quarter-moon, the sliver of white begging to be seen.

  “I swear I didn’t know, Casey.” Sylvie shyly offered aight to her lover. “I wao be in love so…so badly.” She leaned over and grabbed the children’s bows and hahem back to Casey with an angelic look radiating from her moon-sparkling eyes. “..I’d seen Vivienne and Faye for days. Saw their meeting…I wanted love like that.” She paused, “Then I touched you…”

  “No more of this, Sylvie.” Casey whispered. “Everything we are, came naturally and over time for us.” She stood up and pulled Sylvie with her. “e on.” Casey flowed down the hallway to the room she’d been given. “You gave me my own room, no coer.” She pulled Sylvie close and snapped on the final two bows. “I never knew I could love or be with another woman, but I should have suspected.” Casey then walked the couple back to their room. “I said before that sex was a on of mine, right?”

  Sylvie nodded as she pressed a few buttons on her side of the bed to sunlight-proof the house. “You did just before I turned you.”

  Casey crawled on the bed and got fortable on her back with her legs bent at the knees. “There was a time when I enjoyed a guy’s panionship. I recall the feeling of being ected so inteo someohat I never wanted whatever guy I’d picked up…to never leave. Many nights I slept peacefully with Brian’s sex led deep inside my body.” She smiled when Sylvie slid in beside her. “What ged?” Casey rolled her fingers over Sylvie’s cheeks. “You. Not Vivienne, I mean sure Vivienne is beyoiful… goddess-like.” She wiggled her fingers down Sylvie’s chest. “Vivienne and I had a blood bond, where..like you pointed out…loved her feeding from me.” Casey leaned over and brushed her lips to Sylvie’s. “The moment you took me from that graveyard, I felt…us. I felt like I had missed part of my life and…and..” Casey sucked on her lip, “...I wa babsp; I wanted you.” Casey rubbed her feet against Sylvie’s. “That? I feel it deep with me..your touch… it all links to me in a way that I ’t describe.”

  Whetle needle of doubt was removed from her mind by Casey’s tender words, Sylvie felt an instant rush of relief and crawled on top of Casey, leaning back against her partner’s legs. “Just making sure, Not angry?” Sylvie pced her hands on Casey’s tummy lightly and grinned softly. “No one has ever…wanted me.” Sylvie paused, “My talent, yes. Me? Not really.”