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"I lay back on a couch, and she had her arainst my skin, and then I felt two sharp pinpricks on the side of my throat, and the world and all my pain went dim I heard her heart beat

"Teach me, she said I will not have my kiss be quiet

"That she was suckingweaker and weaker I kneell And it did seee of childhood, young manhood and the last few years of love and ecstasy and wonder fled fro and pure What this intis I was helpless to understand, and then she drew back and I went limp in her arms I sank down, free, onto the floor

"Petronia had hold of ain I felt the sharp kick of her foot in er see I could hear the Old Man cry out I kneas for me that he cried But she merely cursed under her breath The ainst it

"Suddenly the scene changed I was no longer indown on it, and down on all the occupants of the roo wind surroundedwind, and at the end of the tunnel there appeared a wondrous light, a light truly beyond description, and in that light, huge gold-and-white light, I could see the figures of Pops and Sweetheart gazing at me Lynelle was also with them I wanted desperately to join them, but I couldn't move Some hideous fascination with Petronia and Manfred and Arion preventedand reaching out for those I so loved There was no clarity in me There was only turbulence Then, as suddenly as this vision had coone I had made no decision

"I was back in ain

" 'You're dying,' Petronia said 'But I know you now, I know you from the Blood, and I won't let it happen, Tarquin Blackwood I claiain, her arms lifted me

" 'Ask him what he wills,' said the black one named Arion

" 'What do you will?' she demanded She held me up on ainst me 'Speak to me,' she said 'What do you will?¡¯

"Helpless and clu and then recoiling, and near collapsing, as she jerked my shoulder and held me on my knees

" 'What do you want!' she deain What was I to say? To die? In this place, around the world from Aunt Queen, from Mona, from all I loved, to die without a trace?

"I raisedbehind it I clawed at her velvet clothes I tried to hit her again I struck at her private parts

" 'Oh, you want to see it, do you? You want to see what they all laughed at!' she said 'Co, and then my hand was placed upon the short, very thick stub of her erect cock, then doer, between two pendulous labia, the shallow crevice that was her vagina, then back again to her cock 'Take it in your ainst my lips 'Take it!' she demanded

"I did the only thing I could do I opened my mouth, and when she shoved her cock into it I bit doith allon And there ca blood such as I never expected -- andon

"I bore doith my teeth and the blood, this liquid fire, streamed intoto s It was as if my body, once drained by her, could not resist it, and suddenly I realized that her hands were cradling hter and that the blood was not blood as I knew it but a great rush of sti fluid that seemed to come from her heart and her brain