We had a different sort of night out last night. We left Lucy with Frederick (at least he’s already dead and can’t be affected by the sight of anything stronger than tea) and went out to a coming-of-age party.
It started at sunset, allowing the vampires to attend. Gillian, as the host vampire, took pride of place and became ‘Lord for the Day’ over the two attending vampires and the other guests. Mandy Curtis was fourteen some hours before and had travelled with her parents to Laverstone for the celebrations, and to receive a blessing from Ada, of all people. Peter Curtis has been a vampire for seventeen years and her mother Jennifer (How I wish she’d been called Mary) had Mandy fourteen years ago, by means of artificial insemination with an egg fertilized by her deceased husband’s DNA. An expensive process, but if vampires don’t have viable semen, what they do have is access to large amount of cash.
At the stroke of midnight Ada gave Mandy the Sight and with a kiss released the genetic code that would begin her transformation over the coming months. Mandy and her mother, you see, are Fae. It’s likely that they’ll never be accepted by the Faery Court but Ada doesn’t hold with all that political nonsense.
And then we partied like it was 1854.
Image: The Great Encyclopedia of Faeries
7 comments:
How sweet, though I have to wonder at the myriad complications of fae vampires. Troubles lives, I would imagine. Or perhaps doubly-blessed? Will await developments to see... ;)
There's no question that hers will be a complicated life - but then whose isn't? Very thought-provoking installment. I liked it.
Thank you both.
Not certain if Mandy will become cast or not. If she does, I'll wish she had a better name!
Well - at least she had a song named after her.
did she?
Yes - Barry Manilow....Mandy.
Ah! Super!
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