Interview With A Vampire
First, I’d like to thank my friend April, as
well as the ladies at my Facebook group and Talking Two Lips for the suggested
questions for Demetri deVerieux from
HUNTERS’ GAME:
The interview:
What do you and Cliantha look for in a
person when you’re looking for a toy for the evening? Do you go for looks or
lack of intelligence to make it easier for you to trap your prey and make them
compliant?
Demetri: What do we look for? You mean
apart from a warm vein? *raising an
eyebrow to emphasize the sarcasm* What I look for, and let’s be clear on
this, I select the prey, Clia is the
bait. Intelligence makes the game more interesting and more satisfying. Anyone
can lure a drunk or some poor bastard who’d jump at the chance to breathe in the
same air Cliantha inhabits, to entice an intelligent human into coming to us
willing is always a victory. Since we’re looking to indulge in an array of
passions and hungers, appealing prey is preferred. Compliancy isn’t an issue,
willing or not, I control this game and all the players in it.
Who turned you? How old are you? How did
you hook up with Cliantha? Are you into the BDSM lifestyle or is it just with
Cliantha that your inner caveman comes out?
Demetri: I was turned by Stavros
almost 500 years ago. Cliantha is the reincarnation of the only woman Stavros
ever loved. Several hundred years ago, I let her be killed to save my own ass,
he was more than a little annoyed about it and we parted company for a couple
of centuries. Clia is mine now. After I put Stavros in his crypt for the final
time, she was broken. I offered her shelter. She’s entertaining, so I keep her.
Inner
caveman? If you call a male who takes what he wants and makes it his, then
perhaps I am. She knows better than to fight with me, she loses. And then I
have to make her aware of who is the master and who is the slave in this
relationship. *smiling* BDSM is not
a lifestyle to males of my breed. We are masters, and you are our slaves.
What are you going to do about the glimpse
of betrayal you’ve seen in Clia?
Demetri:
*laughing* Clia is never going to
betray me, she knows how painful my vengeance will be if she dares to attempt
it. *shrugs* If she feels the need
to test my patience, I’m certain it will be memorable for us both.
How did you and
Cliantha meet? Are you satisfied with your existence as a vampire? Is there
anything you wish were different? What's on your "bucket list"?
Demetri: Clia was devoted to Stavros when I
met her, it was simply my wish that she belong to me not him. It took several
hundred years, but I get what I want.
*eyes the interviewer and
laughs* Satisfied with my existence? I can’t die, I have
no laws to obey, can do anything and no one can stop me. What’s not to love? I
have no bucket list, because what I want, I take. What I want to do, I simply
do.
What is the relationship between you and Stravos? How did it come about?
Is it an amicable relationship or strained?
Demetri: I’d hardly call it a
relationship. His daughter wanted me as her pet, so he ripped out my throat,
turned me and gave me to her. I gave him her heart while it was still warm once
I got tired of her. I’d call our interactions strained for some reason.
Was there a time when having a normal life, growing old, having family,
meant something?
Demetri: Yes, it meant growing old, getting sick, and dying. I can’t imagine why
I didn’t want all that. *stands and
smiles* Thank you so much for this fascinating conversation, stay off the
streets later if you’d like to continue breathing.
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HUNTERS’ GAME
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In modern Toronto
Excerpt (non-adult for this blog):
A flicker of reddish blond hair caught her
eye and her vampiric sight pierced the murky atmosphere, saw him smile at her
from across the room. Already her body hummed with the knowledge that his hands
would soon be on her skin, inciting a hunger that no one else could feed.
She brushed past the few who lingered near
the top of the stairs, and skirted the metal bars that gave the place such a
distinctive look. By the time she reached where he’d been, he’d vanished.
Grinding her teeth, she whirled around and studied the crowd. Again, his pale
presence drew her. One arched eyebrow rose in amused challenge.
“Your game is intriguing, love,” she
whispered. He’d hear her despite the deafening music.
And which role do you prefer to play?
Predator or prey? His answer whispered inside her head,
and she grinned.
What does it matter? It always ends the
same and I have never objected...
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Oh, I love these answers. Obviously a man who is not to be trifled with. Of course you take what you want. Why wouldn't you? With your power, the world could (and should) be yours.
ReplyDelete(To Denyse' -- fascinating man)