Last night; “I do,” Princess Gwenda says at the altar, being married, apparently to a King; one she has never heard of before. Princess Gwenda knows she must be scared, after all just moments earlier she saw the same man, the same King drinking violently the blood of another lady. “You may mark your bride,” Princess Gwenda hears the priest say. ‘Did I hear him right? Surely he meant you may kiss the bride?’ the thoughts have not even probably formed in her mind when King Theo pulls her hand to his mouth and sinking his teeth into her left hand at the side of her thumb. A little bit of blood runs from her hand and King Theo leaves it. Normally after biting a human a vampire will use their sylavia to heal the wound up but when it comes to claiming and marking their bride, their wife, the

