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advantage in frightening me this way as you had in frightening me by leaving me to wander alone in the dark or by leaving me alone in my room for weeks on end.”
    He was taken aback by her confrontation.   “What if I were to tell you that I haven’t eaten in weeks?”   The black of his pupils bled out through the blue again.   “How brave will you be when I decide to take you to my bed?   Are you so lonely yet that you’ll give in to that?”
    Mira swallowed hard.   “I don’t know.   Why are you being so manipulative?”
    Rillan moved away from her.   She barely caught the change in his expression, before he turned. “I’m done for this day.   Go back to your rooms.”   Rillan headed toward the door.
    He had almost vanished completely into the darkness, when Mira realized what he was doing and called after him.   “I know why.”   She heard his footsteps stop.   “You give us two choices.   You or complete and utter loneliness.   That’s why we can’t talk with anyone but you. That’s why this place is so dark and frightening.   Then you wait until we are so desperate from the loneliness that we willingly submit to anything if only to be near another body.   In a strange way you’ve set yourself up to be a savior, so that you don’t have to rape us.”
    Rillan’s tone was sad and hollow.   “Go back to your room Mira.   In a week’s time I’ll come for you.   I won’t be able to resist the thirst much longer.   Prepare yourself for it.”   Then he was gone.
    That night and through the next day Mira thought back to the first lessons she was taught.   The lessons in the beginning spoke of the great warrior who came to the druids.   He was a good man.   So this is what happens when a good man is turned into something that people believe to be inherently evil , she thought.   He must truly despise himself.   All he really wants is someone to care for him.   It’s hard to believe that he hasn’t gone insane. Mira paused a moment in her thoughts.   Or maybe he has a little.   At the very least , he’s hurt and angry.
    It took Mira most of the afternoon to reach the decision she finally came to.   She soaked in a long bath, then put on one of the dresses in the closet that she was particularly fond of.   It was a soft green and reminded her of spring.   It wasn’t one of the overly fancy ones.   In another lifetime she may even have been able to own this dress.   It fitted her personality much better than the heavy brocade and beaded gowns that it shared the closet with.   She brushed her hair out and pulled it back from her face with some small carved wooden combs.   She had never owned jewelry so this seemed as good an occasion as any to wear them.
    Mira stood in front of the mirror looking at herself.   She decided that under the right light, she may even be considered pretty.   She took a deep breath and realized that she was excited.   She had been waiting a long time to lose her virginity.   In some ways she was a little disappointed that it hadn’t happened sooner.   She was actually more scared that he wouldn’t like her than she was of what else he may do to her.   She pushed those thoughts out of her mind and resolutely walked out of the rooms and down the hall.  
    Mira held the lantern high and stared into the darkness around her.   She was familiar enough with where she was going at this point.   She noted the sound of her feet on the stone floor and wondered how good his hearing was.   She could feel a chill rush through the hall and wondered how cold it had become outside the cave with the changing season.   She thought about anything other than what she was doing:   how much she missed breeze blowing through trees, her friends who were counting on her to do her duty, the way her feet sounded padding down the hallway, the amount of time and energy it took to build this place.    
    Before she realized it, she was standing in the room that