Reduced to nothing but a curse!

—Lucius

"There's a good little vampire." I grinned and stroked a claw through his hair before going near the damned throne and tore off five of the many spires that decorated it. With my bare finger, I sharpened them.

And the sight of me was enough to make Sebastian crawl backward in panic at Mira's feet. I only laughed at his fear and dashed to his side to grab him, pulling him up by his hair. "Where do you think you're going to?"

I turned to realize that Mira had stopped spinning her magic, exhausted perhaps, and the other vampires in the room were coming up from their spell.

"My love, would you mind giving us some background music again?" I was referring to her magic. I could sense there was enough for a minimal task as this.

She obeyed, spinning that glittering blackness around us so that they fell back to their lusts.