Life on Sosaria can be dull and quite boring. But for nineteen years I made due with that simple life. After Marius had turned me, I left for Earth, met Lestat, and made a wonderful career in music. After well over a decade of it, then returning home to rekindle my love affair with Marius, I find myself back in the big easy with Lestat. It has been quite a few years since he and I have traveled here together. I love the lights, I love the people, and I love the night life. Here we did not have to hide our affliction. Here we could walk openly with our fangs bared and skin paled. Mortals would pretend and act the part and none would be the wiser of us. Oh how I enjoyed it.
But I bet you are questioning the reason I am here now and not beside my dear beloved Marius? I shall tell you why. I met a man by the name of Rorik, in a quiet Jhelom tavern. We spoke of music, life, and a good time. I enjoyed the mortal man’s company greatly, so I had offered to see him again if he wished. One night we met again, and he helped me on a quest with my barding. I took him to the Bloody Brew, our Tavern in the Lair. We spoke for quite a few hours until Marius and his wife Pandora entered. I began to worry slightly, I knew Marius had become quite attached to me, and I could feel his anxiety about Rorik. But was it so wrong for me to make a new friend?
Pandora was delighted I had made a friend. She asked many questions, to which Rorik happily replied to each. But as for Marius, he slowly became more and more irritated. He busted out with “isn’t your boyfriend waiting for you back at your apartment!?” I was shocked! Humiliated! And disappointed! How could Marius say such a thing! I had no boyfriend, well, if you count Marius as that I guess you could say I had one but still! He said if I found someone else he would let me go. He said I needed to grow, well wasn’t I? Marius stormed out and not long after Rorik left me alone with Pandora. I was furious! He commanded me, through our bond, to go to him, threatened me that I had five minutes. I waited until the last possible second to go to him.
I yelled at him, we screamed at one another, how dare he tell me I wasn’t allowed visitors in this apartment. I tried to leave but he threw me back into the wall, he hit me again when he swore he wouldn’t. I made well on my promise and I hit him back! Which was a mistake. He threw me around, he ripped my clothes off, screaming at me that I’m his! No one else will have me! His pants were torn off and at the last second, before he even started to ravish me senseless he stopped. Realizing what he was doing. And simply, released me. I felt our bond break; I felt the tear between us. My mind was silent once more; the agony of the parting hurt more then what he was going to do to me. He just left me there, a pile of mess on my apartment floor.
Tears rolled down my face, as I dragged myself to my bathroom, turning the hot water on and sat in the tub. What have I done? I pushed him to the point to release me, I’m not ready to be alone like that. It seemed like hours I sat under the hot water, trying to just melt away, the tears never stopped. I heard Pandora’s voice call out to me, and before I knew it, she was sat in the tub, fully dressed with me, holding me tight. I felt the warmth of her and I cried into her bosom as a child would cry into their mother’s. She held me tightly, and asked me, “Mary, love, do you trust me?” Without hesitation I said yes. How could I not trust this woman? I was the mistress to her husband, and she loved me through it, we lived in harmony, knowing where our place was. Next I knew, her fangs were buried deep into my neck, drinking from me, I did not fight her.
I felt myself drifting to the edge of darkness, I no longer feared that place, and I had been there many times before. I then tasted her blood in my mouth, the warmth draining down my throat; I immediately latched to her wrist. Her blood was sweet and forbidden to me. I loved it. I didn’t want her to, but she pulled away and I felt it, I felt her there, in my mind, calling out to me. Pandora and I, we bonded. Immediately I knew, Marius would be furious at us both but I did not care, nor did she. I dressed her in one of my night gowns and she stayed with me all night, holding me close.
The next day she ran to Armand and Lestat, they agreed to help us. Lestat said for Armand and Merida to hide us away while he talked to Marius. Marius found Pandora and nearly killed her, Merida as well for protecting her. Lestat managed to force Marius out and talk to him, where they both disappeared to Earth for a while. Armand got me to Britain with Pandora and we stayed there for some weeks. Comforting one another, getting to know one another better. Turns out she and I had more in common then we thought.
When Lestat returned he took me back to Earth with him, Pandora had no issues of letting me go with him either. And that is why im here on Earth. Escaping Marius and his wrath. Running once more. But who the fuck cares, I’ve got a concert tonight with Lestat. I am back on the rock scene, and damn happy to be home.