Her head snapped up, and Vlad was instantly filled with a frozen and vast emptiness. Adze's deadly white teeth cracked into a harsh and beautiful smile that sent shivers shooting down his spine. Her skin was as dark as soot, illuminating the whites of her eyes. Eyes as deep and dark as an abyss of swirling cloud in the dead of night. They pierced him with a look of spite and mischief, glinting viciously like the flickers of light from the fire.
The dark strands escaping from her head billowed around her forehead and shoulders; long ringlets cascading and flowing around her. Some strands glowed purple and scarlet in the dim light, while others appeared a jet black, and then a deep brown. A breeze trickled through the room, sending strands of her hair into the air. The limbs of a singed and smoking tree, with arms that licked in vain towards the heavens.
Then he looked across. He withdrew his eyes from the vampire in front of him to gaze upon the blonde sunny girl standing by his side. The slayer girl, with her choppy blonde hair and happy smile, her hearty laugh and pure beauty. Adze was a demon goddess, but compared to Erin...
With her he could escape. He could forget what he was and what he was supposed to be, and he loved her for it.
Could a vampire really crave lightness over dark? The very thing that should kill him made him feel alive, and Vlad wasn't about to let that go.