- What?
- The thing to find is my weak point. If you find my weak point. Then I'll let you go.
- Your weak point?
- Yes, and you can tell anything, from this kiosk to the palace, you may quote what you
desire quoting, but arrival at the palace gate, if you has still no found it, then, unhappily for you, you
will stay here forever?
- Birds?
- No.
- The jungle.
- No.
- But how will I know if you really tell the truth. I might very well say the weakness and you
will not recognize it.
- I'll tell you, I promise.
- I desire a guarantee. I am an human after all.
- Well then. I swear on my blood, and he bit his mouth and went ahead to kiss mine.
- If I really had to lie then you'd have the
power to burn me.
I did not know what to say, rather I did not know what feeling was tormenting me.
- Very well. In fact, you have still not told me your name.
- I know Vivie.
He knows my name but he didn't let me know his.
I got up and slowly approached him.
He tried to advise me
- You shouldn't do that. You are still weak.
- I know. But I desire to. As you said what was true.
We humans are weak, so weak that a simple breath may kill us, and soiled unknowns could take my life so easily, and we are just the hateful kind you described that is unable to give in. That's why we live fully, we live in all ways until our last breath. and also, there you came. You came to me.
- I didn't have choice.
- Yes, you did have. But you chose to save me. And me who is a mortal, desire you so much, more than you will never understand.
Then I stood on tiptoe and put my lips and his, the same way he did in the smothering water.
It didn't take long that he plunged his cold fingers in my burning hair and responded to my kiss. It was so deep that I felt my leg trembling and trembling until they could not support me anymore. Happily he grabbed me up and brought me to the bed.
- At least, you know what you want Vivie.
- Am I not? We mortals are so fragile that we want everything, mostly someone like you.
He skillfully took off the dressing gown I wore even without noticing it.
- Who put me in this dress bird? I still asked.
- Don't worry beautiful human, it doesn't matter anymore as I am taking it off from you.
He kissed all the part that the sweet fabric left until nothing remained anymore. His coat joined it on the floor and he spread my legs.
He kissed there, this tender part of my body that desired his more than any one's. But when his tongue penetrated in, I cried out passionately, it was embarrassing but I couldn't stop, then he put his finger in my mouth in order to calm me down.
- You are so impatient. Already that wet.
- Yes, but it's not because I am human, it's because I desire you infinitely. So please bird, give it to me.
- Then like you wish, I will do.
He put his arm under my leg and lifted it,...then to grant our desperate plea, he finally entered me. I was so impatient to discover his taste, so impatient to know, that I imagined things even before the union, but I'd be sincere with myself and admit the truth, it was beyond my expectation, and sensing it totally, he swept my tears of granted wish poured for his coming. He granted everything. My warm body of human, and his cold body of immortal had joined in to be one, so as he promised, this union let us grasp a pleasure that lost words.
Now matter, how much he trusted inside me, it was not enough, no matter how much I moaned or cried to express my rapture, it was not enough, no matter how much I looked at the vast sky filled of sparkling stars that witnessed our making love, it was not enough. Along our liking, I wanted to remove away from this threatening intensity he caused on us, but he didn't let me do so. Embracing me strongly, tightly, he kept thrusting and thrusting until I lost the light of reason. His body sweated abundantly and the cold sweets flowed on my body, a frozen rain on a burning desert to quench the insanity, but somehow it increased even more my mad enjoyment.
- Bird, I cannot anymore. It's too much. I will die out of pleasure.
- You chose it. So take responsibility and bear until the end.
- But bird, my body can not take it anymore.
- I sensed it but forgive me Vivie, I could not stop.
He kissed me, and imprisoned my mouth in his, fondling, kneading my breasts, and playing nastily with my nipples, ravaging my inside with his burning part, as hard as a stick of steel. He completely filled me over with devastating storms of pleasure.
When we finished, he fell slightly in me. We smiled to each other and kissed. But alas for me, it was a short break as he took me again. He kept taking me, endlessly, until the moon that went off return to its place.
Through my half- Conscious I felt his hair on my skin and his cold lips kissing me to sooth my fever.
- I hope that you will always desire to remain human.
I didn't know why but I cried out on his words. I looked him getting up and putting his coat. He looked at me before scattering in countless black birds and flied to the palace.
- Vivie, my name is Azeo.
Azeo's kingdom didn't own days. But we could guess the "morning" time by his birds. They screamed each time an human hour passed, and displayed it on the sky.
For my part, imprisoned in the world I didn't fear, I just went along his pitiful game. As he asked me to tell him his weakness as the price I have to pay for freedom, I started to enunciate countless things that could be his sad weakness.
- Light?
- No.
- How could it be "no"? You are a vampire aren't you? Then your weakness should be light!
- Such cliché. You are not even ashamed to tell it so loudly.
I got pissed.
- Well, well, mister original, let's see if you are that good at hidden those weaknesses. We just started the game.
- I am looking forward to it.
I thought about endless thing that could enslave people, no matter what they could have, or what they could be.
- Coldness?
- No.
- Summer?
- No.
- Spring. Autumn. winter. The solstice. Butterflies.
Humans. Mortality. Immortality. Sun. the moon. loneliness. Your mother. Your father. The one who
transformed you. cars. the darkness. Life. The death. Football. drugs...
I quoted a lot of words, a lot of addicting things that existed and tortured humans since the night of times, but none of them was the one, and each of them received the hateful answer "no".
In the end, becoming truly suspicious, I asked him if his weakness was really true.
- Yes, it's really.
They were simple words, they were said with a veiled colorless voice, but I believed them, I believed him.
I looked up at the great, lonely castle.
- Where are you staying there, away from me?
- Until you find the answer I will not appear before you.
- Liar, there is your birds spying me, observing my slightest move and reporting everything to you. Don't you think that it's too unfair?
- No, you just forgot that the birds are all a part of me. They help me to see the outside world.
- Even in your own kingdom? I am sure that even you who forgot light, are aware of this strange way to think.
- I am but I am fine staying like that.
- Then come here. In a life that refuses to end, derogate from rules, one or two or even a billion times, do not change much. You will still keep living on.
- That's a formidable thing to say. You are really the typical human who think to change something before leaving the world.
- And do you hate it?
- Not really.
- Me.
- What? My weakness?
He laughed. For the first time, he laughed simply, without this heavy cynicism that hurt my heart so much.
- Well attempted, at least it's not modesty or shyness that smothered you.
- And you have seen nothing yet. But passing on, let's find other things.
We still continued the game for a few moments, me who kept citing words and he who kept answering no. Those precious, laughing times became my treasure and they conquered my heart more than he could understand.
Soon, he stopped the game.
- Vivie, I have to go now. We will pursue our game later.
- But why? Where are you going?
- I am starving, and you too. I asked my butler to serve you something lightweight. You're a little paler than usual.
- You are going to find blood?
- Are you shocked?
- No, if the blood are not human's.
A short silence followed my reply.
- Even if the blood I drink is human's, Vivie, there is act which you are condemned for, even before their fulfillment.
- It's not an excuse! Azeo!
He heard me or not, he still went away. The sound of his countless wings tore up my ears to blood, and head down, I hid my face in my arms. The tears didn't come out but flowed inside.
- Miss, I brought you your lunch. Please enjoy.