Nabiki and Kasumi nodded. It was hard for Akane during the day. She was slower, constantly tired, weakened. Bright lights hurt her eyes and she apparently had trouble focussing. Direct sunlight caused her pain. It might eventually kill her, but it wasn't instantaneous.
Okay, she wasn't completely in keeping with various vampire legends. She didn't seem to like garlic, and the religious symbols seemed to make her uncomfortable, but neither showed any signs of killing her outright.
Her need for blood was a little more discomforting. She was making do with raw steak and other readily available things.
At night though, Akane came alive.
Akane doubted that her sisters knew how alive she felt at night. Her senses were keener, her strength and speed increased, and she felt like she could do almost anything. She could even smell the warmth of her sisters, their warm blood.
It was day though, and she felt mostly dead as a result.
The hunger was constant, or nearly so. Or was it a Hunger with a capital 'H'? Whatever, she could hold it off.
The typical vampire powers and weaknesses seemed muted or entirely missing. She couldn't turn into a bat or a wolf or mist. She couldn't hypnotize the unwary, or at least she didn't think so. She hadn't experimented a lot with that sort of thing. She'd spent quite a lot of time trying to turn into a bat and all she'd managed to do, in her own estimation, was look silly standing on the roof flapping her arms at midnight.
Akane ignored the way her two sisters made little movements that she easily interpreted. She'd been puzzled the first time they'd done it, but it hadn't taken long before she figured out that they were trying not to flinch or draw away from her. Well, after a lot of thought, it hadn't taken a good deal of effort to determine why.
Kasumi in the fetish maid costume, Nabiki in the harem dancer costume - both had been changed a lot in that little Yakuza experiment. They also continued to change as time went on. If at some point Akane's Hunger caused her to go after either sister, how would they be able to fend her off?
Akane suppressed another yawn as best she could. For obvious reasons, baring her fangs tended to make her sisters flinch.
Noise from the front alerted them that the arrivals had indeed arrived.
Kasumi was the one to let them in, and Akane looked over the arrivals and tried not to picture them in terms of how many quarts they had.
(Posted Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:13)
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