18 November, 2007 11/18/2007
"The third wife ran toward the Cold Woman with the
dagger raised high. The Cold Woman smiled, barely distracted
from her fight with the old wolf. She had no fear of
the weak human woman or the knife that would not even
scratch her skin, and she was about to deliver the death
blow to Taha Aki.
And then the third wife did something the Cold
Woman did not expect. She fell to her knees at the blood
drinker's feet and plunged the knife through her own heart.
Blood spurted through the third wife's fingers and
splashed against the Cold Woman. The blood drinker
could not resist the lure of the fresh blood leaving the
third wife's body. Instinctively, she turned to the dying
woman, for one second entirely consumed by thirst.
Taka Aki's teeth closed around her neck"
the third wife's sacrifice
