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Chapter Ten

We left off with everyone done having sex. And everyone connected with Anita and JC having an absolute happy power glow while all of Auggie's folks have been sucked dry and severely traumatized. Auggie is AOkay Partner with this as is Haven, but Octavius, Auggie's human servant and Pierce are not. It's tough shit for them.

Meanwhile JC and Anita take a bath. Anita is all snuggled up to JC. And we get ourselves a bit of an infodump chapter. \~/. JC wants to know what's on Anita's mind and she's all if you hadn't shut down your marks you wouldn't need to ask. The funny thing is, I remember from the earlier books, that Anita absolutely, positively didn't want to have the marks. Any of them. And she was down right pissed when JC gave them to her. Now, obviously I've missed quite a bit between those books and so I don't know how this changed, but I would have liked it not to have changed. It would have added excellent tension to the book.

Which, I might add, is seriously lacking here. I don't feel any time ticking down. Any sort of pressure. They're just laudididahing around taking baths and chatting about things. The tension filled things, that would be between Auggie, his people and JC has been conveniently skipped over for the bathtub scene which is kinda... boring and filled with talking heads. Or at least JC's talking head.

So there's the bit about the marks and then Anita looks up at him and...

I stared up at him; his hair wet and slicked back from his face, so that nothing to away from it. Those eyes a blue as dark as blue could be and hold no touch of black. His lashes thick and black- it had taken me months in his bed to see his upper lashes by candlelight and realize that he had a double row of upper lashes. Him and Elizabeth Taylor. You only saw it if the light was just right, and his head turned just right. Until then, they were just this unbelievable lace around his eyes. I traced the lines and curves of his face, down to the grace of his lips. I let him see in my eyes what I saw, what I felt, gazing at him.

Do we really need to know that JC has a double row of eyelashes? Is it pertinent to the plot in any particular way? Will there be some sort of contest where the person with the most eyelashes becomes ruler of the world? Will this information ever come up again besides the next time when Anita starts waxing poetic about his eyelashes? Is this once again more proof that LKH has some sort of eyelash fetish? \~/\~/\~/

After this um useless paragraph (where is her editor?) Anita wanted to know why Requiem look like he got his face smashed into a wall. Apparently Meng Die smashed his face into a wall. It turns out this fight was about Anita. GASP!! Who's surprised at that?! I'm not. \~/

See, Meng Die is upset because she thinks that Anita has stolen Requiem from her. She fed off of him once and he has offered to feed her more completely but she won't because "I was under the impression that I'm having sex with enough men."

JC finds this funny especially since people would trade anything for a night in bed with Requiem. And that Requiem stopped sleeping with Meng Die because Anita won't share her bed with guys who sleep with other women. Also Anita apparently always turns down a guy first. Anyway. Blah, blah, Requiem needs a good reason not to be her blood apple, blah.\~/\~/

Strange phrase, "He gave that wonderful Gallic shrug that meant everything and nothing". What makes a shrug a Gallic shrug? How is it different than say a French shrug? Or a German shrug? What about a Hebrew shrug? Or Yiddish! I bet a Yiddish shrug would be very expressive and at the same time using very little movement.

Gallic shrugs. Huh. *Yiddish shrugs* \~/

Anyone want to make a guess as to what sort of drugs she's taking?

Anyway, Meng Die is in a cross wrapped coffin and JC will either have to let her out or kill her the next day. But that's immaterial because Anita has to figure out what sort of excuse to give Requiem. \~/

"I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty." Is Anita's response. A surprisingly fairly reasonable (within the circumstances) response.

Is she allowed to have this response? No, of course not. If she does, how can she have massive amounts of sex with guys. \~/ As JC says. "But it is not ma petite. Emotionally it may be too many, but metaphysically, and for the sake of our power base, seven is not enough. You must add a lover who is not metaphysically connected to you and you must pick a new pomme de sang now that Nathaniel is your animal to call".

Two for metaphysical \~/\~/ and one for ma petite \~/.

See, her aruder is actively seeking out mates. No, but your power is seeking a new pomme de sang. Don' you undertand what is happening, ma petite? The ardeur is seeking for you.

That's right. The magic sex thing is looking for TWO new partners. And apparently it's attracted to Elvira's line of vampires who have also been fucked by the Aurdur. \~/\~/

It seems like Auggie may have become attached to the two of them by the power of the Aurder. It's just that addictive that he's going to follow them around like a puppy begging for sex. \~/

Finally, if people find out that JC's aurder is so strong that people might try to kill them or something. I don't really care.

So, what have we learned here? The tension is now that Anita needs to find two someones who'll help feed her sex needs or else she'll starve to death. However it doesn't feel very pressing. Instead it just felt like they were talking about the up coming party and how worried they were about if it would go off well or not.

No Tension. No nothing about this problem.

But, it does end on a typical cliffhanger of sorts when Richard walks in as mad as hell.

Drinks total: 16