“Now, here I am, a stranded woman marching down a spooky, remote road with no one to hear me scream. I'm in a damned plot for B horror flick!”

“This, she thought inanely, is the part where I am supposed to run. Oh, and that screaming thing”

“Laya! I'm going to give you my baby. You hear me?”

“I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what, do you suppose, should I do from there?”

“Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me.”

“Damn. Not even joined yet and you're already using the headache excuse.”

“I am going to devour you, Magdelegna,” he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. “You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.”