Embraced
on the eve of the new year in Barcelona thousands of years ago, this fiery
Spanish fly has lived her life as if every night is a fiesta. Uncaring
of the consequences, she only see's the passion, the romance, the adventure
of the world and the creature that she is. Her sire was an Andrasta, but
he'd left her alone all of her life, and she was fully independent of him.
She had seen very little of her Clan, and up until the most recent new
years in Barcelona, she had no desire to see any of them. Until she happened
upon one of her Clan in Spain.
She met Dimitri Andrasta haphazardly, amongst the crowds
of dancers, and masked men and women in Barcelona as they celebrated the
ending of one year and the coming of another. Saphia was in the middle
of the meelee, her ghoul escort having been lost in the crowd, the vampiress
twirled and danced and lost herself in the music, the warmth of so many
bodies, and the joy of the season. Her joy was not to be short-lived, for
as the night wore on the people got more drunk, and more inhibitions were
discarded. Saphia spotted Dimitri across the sea of people, the devils
mask he wore making her pause, and the feel of him as Kindred making her
wary and excited all at once. She was attracted like a moth to a flame,
intrigued by the man who stood within, but apart from the crowd. They played
the game, finding and loosing each other all night, until she finally ended
it and tried to seduce him in earnest. They ended up at a lavish hotel,
both drunk on wine-soaked blood. When the morning came, she had slipped
out, leaving only her mask on the bed beside Dimitri. Fear had consumed
even as love tugged at her heart and pleaded with her to return to his
side and his bed. She did not. Saphia had been on her own for a long time,
and to need someone so urgently as she suddenly needed Dimitri petrified
her. She fled the room, and has not seen him since. That was in 1950. Saphia
is coming to New York, not sure if she's settled her feelings, but knowing
that the absence of his presence in her life has made her an empty shell
of the vibrant woman and vampire that she was. She comes to New York to
see what could be, and possibly to revive what might have been.
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