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Chapter 27 pt.2

Everyone has left Anita. Yay. One of the were's a Cisco, who's about eighteen, gets all jittery about having to help Anita with the bandages and things. He gets yelled at for noticing Anita's boobs. Which is why you don't have an eighteen year old guard a naked woman. Even if they are a were and not supposed to notice this stuff. It's the hormones. You know? Anyway Cisco gets sent to guard the coffins and send someone else up. A wise idea considering that Cisco is ogling, but they shouldn't have put him on Anita guard duty in the first place.

Remus deals with Anita's vampire bite, by taping it up and Jean-Claude goes, "Are you so ashamed of us that you would hide our mark of favor under bandages and tape?"

Now, I had a bit of a quandary with this statement after a bit, I decided that there was nothing wrong with it in the first place. Then I realized what bothered me about it. It's only now that Jean Claude realizes that Anita bandages up her bites. He has been feeding from her, I'm sure, so why hasn't he noticed it. Or has she not been bandaging it and now for some reason she has and only for this statement. This statement then allows us to tangent onto a discussion of vampire bites. For about a page.

They continue on this vein -hah- of random talking. Which sort of comes out of nowhere, really. Jean-Claude tries to kiss Anita, and she doesn't want to, but I can't tell why she doesn't want to. And then he randomly says that he wants Richard and Anita to embrace their true selves. In this case it means, Anita feeding the arduer from Requiem.

He wants her to keep her promise to potentially mindfuck Requiem again. And so does Requiem.

"Your power rises, and you are more like Belle Morte," Requiem said, and he sounded sad.

I glanced at him. "What are you talking about?"

Requiem answered, "Belle used to promise to feed the ardeur on us, then say she had not meant it right this moment, but later, always later. Later could be very late indeed when she wished to play cruel games."

"I'm not playing, I said "I'm scared."

"If you feed from him, and he becomes besotted again, then you cannot feed off of any of the pomme de sang candidates. We will show them Requiem's state of mind and tell them you have grown too powerful for such games."

"And if he doesn't fall under my spell again?" I asked.

"Then you may taste some of the candidates without sex."

As opposed to with sex which appears to besot them automatically. Though besot seems to be putting it lightly. But still look! Anita has a valid point! And a valid emotional response! Mark it off on the calender, because I don't think we'll be seeing it again for a while. And what's worse, Jean-Claude and Requiem are pushing Anita into doing something she doesn't want to do by making her feel guilty. Jean-Claude continues on this track of guilt, trying to appeal to her logic.

"Anita" - my name, not good -"We must know how dangerous you are before Augustine wakes for the day. If you can feed from Requiem and not bespell him, then you can free Augustine. But if Requiem is not free, then he, and Augustine, will be like humans we have let go, but we know that we can call them to us at any time. We take away our mid spell to please the human police, but we know which ones are so deeply ours that we can still whisper in their dreams. We can still call them." He stood at the foot of the bed, letting me see how scared he was, but under that fear was eagerness. "If we can control this, then we are powerful beyond my wildest dreams. If we cannot control this, the we are dangerous beyond my deepest fears. If Requiem falls under the arduer again, then we must cancel everything. I dare not even take you to the ballet among so many vampires.

Just a thought, but why can't they see if they can unbesot Augustine when he wakes up with out mind fucking Requiem again? I mean, one really doesn't have to do anything with the other. Jean-Claude is making an argument that sounds logical. An if -then statement. But it's rather like If all birds can fly then bats are birds. It's perfectly logical statement. Bats can fly, birds can fly, but bats are not birds. So the statement is a true false statement. (Ah logic class, how I miss you so). He's trying to make it seem logical so that Anita will concede to his demands. After all, he really is eager. I think that the emotion under the fear is the true emotion and he's damn eager to see if he can use this weapon to his advantage. He says "we" but they are his dreams.

My final point is... why do they need to cancel the ballet if Anita is out of control? Couldn't she have an important "work call" and have to beg off going? Thus they can do the ballet without any problems in regards to Anita's sex power.

Anita begins to cave as Jean-Claude continues to pressure her. He wants her to feed the sex power as in "Feed, feed, ma petite. He is not ugly. Feed upon him, completely, no tasting, no holding back. Feed, and if he can withstand it, then the ballet tonight goes on, the party after."

Again this continuing mentioning of beauty as an incentive. I wonder if the person was ugly would they not be effected so much by the sex power? Why would this even part of her decision? Beyond the fact that she only seems to have sex with pretty people (not handsome, mind you, but pretty.) It seems horribly prejudice that she should only have sex with pretty people. Now that I think about it, there's a lot of prejudice in this book, it's just non-standard.

We continue on this random line of logic when Jean-Claude says that he wants her to just fuck Requiem and see what happens. Anita doesn't like this, because she doesn't do one night stands. See, she's not planning on keeping Requiem. Keeping sort of sounds like a slave, doesn't it? Also, she doesn't sleep with a person just once. So they decide that Requiem will be a fuck buddy. The most hilarious exchange happens when they decide this.

"Think of him as you think of Jason. What did he call himself, your fuck buddy?"

I raised my eyebrows at him, then turned and looked at Requiem. "Did you hear that?"

"I did."

"Do you understand what the term means?"

"It means someone who is your friend, that you sometimes have sex with, but it is not a relationship. Though I prefer the term fib for it."

"Fib?" I made it a question.

"Friends in bed, fib."

I absolutely love how how she has to ask Requiem if he knows what a fuck buddy means, and not only that but if he heard. I mean they're not whispering, they're having a conversational tone conversation. (Redundant Kippur is redundant), so unless Requiem suddenly became deaf, he would have heard them. Then the fact that she has to ask him as if he was a child if he knew what the term meant. Perhaps the prettier you are, the dumber you get? Now that I think about it, it seems like everyone is a fuck buddy for Anita. I don't think she has one meaningful relationship. It's all shallow sex, despite what she says. The one meaningful relationship that she might have is with Richard.

They agree to be fuck buddies and Requiem is all poetic like and says, basically, come fuck me. She looks at Requiem and doesn't feel anything. (Not that she supposed to, they're just going to fuck) and thinks "He was pretty, but pretty had never been enough for me."

Riiiiight. And I'm a mongoose. The fact that she only has sex with pretty people, only seems to care about their looks completely refutes that statement like a cleric rebukes undead. It's the one thing she comments on when she describes people. The only thing. How they look, how pretty they are.

Asher slides in which begins another scene, so, I'm going to do that one next. Damn this is a ridiculously long chapter.