It was a long time ago...yet I will always remember the night I found out that man is not the 
only race that walks this earth. I had been drinking...why is it that most bad things happen when you are drunk? It is because you are no longer in control. The preditors can't resist such an easy target.
I was a fool not to wait for my friends, I was young & stubborn. And wanting to catch up to the 
fetching young wench that had left ahead of me...
My body full of ale, my mind filled with lust. Alone & unprepared for what was to come...
The smell of perfume, a womanly form beconing me into the dark shadows of the alley. I thought I was the conquerer, my manliness had captured this beauty. I had only to follow to claim her as my prize.
I was a deadman! How reckless! So full of my imagined immortality!
I was a young lord, oblivious to my own mortality.
I was in her embrace moments after I entered the dank dark of the alley. Her flesh cool against 
my own fevered skin. I fumbled with her skirts as she kissed me. Her hands found my own clothing 
no problem. I felt sure that I would have my bounty, but all I found was oblivion. Her mouth found 
my neck as I found the treasure I'd been seeking. I'd never felt such pleasure & pain as I did that night.
She became the conquerer as I found myself helpless to stop what was happening. I was in the 
euphoria of orgasmic limbo, as she took from my body all that she wanted. I thought I'd found a succubus that would drain me of all as I felt myself fall into eternity.
Later, I awoke, in my bed at the local inn. It was a room I'd rented often when I'd had too much 
to drink. It was an inner room with no windows, as the daylight often made a hangover worse. 
    I  rested til evening, under the watchful eye of a young lad, a servant or perhaps the landlord's son.
It was then that I met my savior, the one that found my in the alley laying amidst the garbage.
It was Albion de Merlyon, Compte Merlyon, my benefactor, savior and mentor that came to me
in the dim dusk of evening.
To inform me, beyond any doubt...I was no longer a living man....

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