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Tancready
and the object of his desire, the beautiful Boris, have met over an ancient, ornate chessboard at the UNM duck pond and have discovered a mutual interest in photography. Tancready has lured Boris into a photo shoot on Sandia Mountain the next day. How can that happen? Aren't vampires creatures of the night?
*****
THE PRESCIENT
Returning to my home, I ate voracious
amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables, another source of energy, and then
retired to my bedchamber. I slept soundly, but awoke after sundown, hungry and
restless again.
I returned to the university and prowled
the night until I found young Boris beneath the blinding lights of the campus
tennis courts doing battle with the young woman who had accompanied him last
night. They played at playing, obviously enjoying one another’s company, which
sent me into a sudden fit of unbridled jealousy. My halo flared dangerously.
Worse, his aura blazed in unconscious response. He sensed a presence…my
presence.
In the grip of a deep melancholy, I
withdrew and chanced upon a blond student retiring from the courts. Embroiling
this hapless substitute in reds and yellows, I overpowered the youth quickly
and pulled him into a darkened recess. After licking the sweat of recent
exercise from his exposed belly, I quickly coaxed the seed from him. Barely in
control of my senses because of hunger and lust and jaundiced envy, I entered
the towhead and ravaged him brutally while watching the distant, manly grace of
Boris Balint.
#
I roused myself the following morning with
difficulty. Despite the excitement of my coming time with Boris, I was
reluctant to expose myself to the dreadful sunburn and excruciating headaches
an all-day excursion necessarily entailed. Nonetheless, it was necessary. The
prospect depressed me so deeply that I was only able to function by
concentrating on my approaching proximity to the delectable Boris. Briefly, I
wondered why I did not simply overwhelm the boy and take what I wanted, as with
the Hispanic and the towhead and countless others, but something within me
cautioned against rashness. This prize was unique in both physical sensuality
and an innate sensitivity to the unusual.
And that brought me face-to-face with a potential
problem I had sought unsuccessfully to ignore. As I gathered the equipment and
awaited the boy’s arrival, I considered the unease that was twin to my pleasure
in his exciting presence. The youth was extraordinarily aware of me. For all
the studied casualness of one of his age, his halo betrayed his true, perhaps
unconscious feelings. There were, of course, individuals who were quite
perceptive when it came to Eternals, although they would be rare in this part
of the Western Hemisphere, given its lack of such lore. Dhampires, sons of
Vampires, existed, of course, and were attuned to our rhythms. That would
present no particular problem, but there was a sensitive of another sort,
presenting another problem.
Was it possible Boris was a Prescient?
Mortals with an uncanny sensitivity to Eternals, Prescients are sometimes
dangerous since many are Betrayers, or worse, Slayers. Over the ages, I have
known many Prescients, some of whom, the ignorant, fled in terror. Others, more
enlightened, provided many hours of pleasant company. One, a delightful woman of
lush body and bright mind was a constant companion in a long-ago lifetime. She
occupied my mind and body as few have done over the centuries…a role I
envisioned for Boris in this one. Those were my blood days, and Sara willingly
presented her veins to me when my hunger became truly demanding … without ill
effect, I might add. Even today, I speculate on her given name, Sara, the Gypsy
version of the black goddess Kali.
A few Prescients have betrayed me into the
hands of enraged, terrified mortals, who are the deadliest and most
bloodthirsty of all creatures, and a small number have sought my doom. These I
dealt with as brutally as Vlad dispatched his enemies.
Boris’s bloodlines allowed for this
possibility, but his family had been in the New World for generations with no
exposure to my kind. Yet, his aura clearly showed he was unusually receptive to
my mere presence. That did not necessarily mean he knew the why or the what
of his apprehension. Shrugging away my usual caution, I completed preparations
for our outing, thereby laying bare the depth of my need. My hunger for the boy
was both natural and unnatural; natural in craving his pyranic energy, his
semen, and unnatural in a lust that was overwhelmingly sensual, a different
thing altogether.
At the appointed hour, his white Jeep
appeared before my closed gate, and I threw the lever to admit him. Carefully
placing our equipment atop an old tent he carried in the back, I was pleased to
note he drove an enclosed vehicle, which would ease my exposure to the sun. I
had agreed to allow him to provide the conveyance, suspecting this would
satisfy his masculine code of etiquette.
We elected to explore the Bosque, a unique
hundred-mile swath of cottonwoods lining both sides of the Rio Grande, an
ecological treasure sentenced to a slow death once a system of dams put an end
to the annual flooding of the river that was required to nurture seedlings. The
once mighty Rio Grande now trickled through a narrow channel that wandered
willy-nilly in its wide, sandy bed.
Boris took to the Leica Minilux like a
born photographer. It fit his hand and eye perfectly. He shot images of
driftwood on white sand, river birds in flight, an ancient turtle sunning on a
semi-submerged log, and even a reclusive red fox. He rolled up his pant legs to
reveal strong calves lightly brushed with fine brown hair and waded the river,
cavorting like a boy. His aura ran wild with joy and budding friendship. He
grew so comfortable that he dared tease me about the abundance of clothing
covering me from head to foot on this warm, autumn day. I explained it for what
it was, the protection of sensitive skin against the brutal sun. He had no such
constraints. He tore off his shirt, baring his broad, muscled chest to my
famished gaze. I briefly lost control and sopped up his radiations, but
recovered before any damage occurred.
My desirable young companion had a
commitment that night, so we made arrangements to meet the following morning
for a quick trip to the mountains before developing our film in my darkroom.
Once he was gone, I applied ointments and unguents to my poor flesh and
retired.
In the dark of night, I rose and prowled
the alleyways behind the bars on East Central, locating a man whose aura showed
no trace of disease. I took his cum while he swore and sang drunkenly until the
shock of his extraordinary climax silenced him.
#
The lush conifer forest on the east side
of Sandia Mountain, a ten-thousand-foot peak directly east of Albuquerque that
the local Indians called Sleeping Turtle, was less harsh on my system, and the
boy’s growing amity made the effort worthwhile. He was an odd combination of
venturesome youth, childish juvenile, and mature man. His company delighted me
even as it aggravated my lust. It was not merely his physical presence that
kindled me, but his mind and spirit, as well. We discussed the great
photographers. He was much taken with Ansel Adams and Ernest Haas but agreed
that Dmitri Kessel’s powerful plates of the ornate Benedictine church at
Zwiefalten, Germany placed him among the elite. With difficulty, I stopped
short of boasting that I had served as a seminarian at that magnificent
structure in another lifetime.
We stood for long intervals and listened
to the forest speak while I fought a raging battle to control my impatience for
him. Boris blundered upon a black bear rooting for acorns, disturbed grazing
mule deer, and photographed a magnificent golden eagle. We ascended Sandia
Crest, named for the watermelon pink hue the autumn sun gave its western face
at sunset, to cast our eyes west over the broad Rio Grande Valley to Mt.
Taylor, one of the Navajo’s four sacred peaks. At a turnout lower on the
mountainside we gazed north to Santa Fe hidden in the foothills of the towering
Sangre de Cristos…a beautiful name, Blood of Christ! With that thought, I
hungrily observed the vein pulsing in the boy’s neck as he snapped a picture. I
wanted him so badly that I achieved an erection, something I rarely do until it
is required. Sexual energy escaped my control, lapping against him in mauve
waves of desire.
He dropped the camera from his eye and
faced me. From the sudden flare of warning red, I saw he was alarmed. His mood
changed dramatically; Boris was more thoughtful and less gregarious on our
return trip despite my attempt to keep a conversation going.
The boy was quite skilled in the darkroom.
Devoting our attention to this task, we labored into the night. Prolonged
proximity to his sculpted body taxed my control to the limit. Waiting for our
prints to dry, I hovered near him and carelessly sent a wave of desire up his
back, retreating when his aura flared. But the damage was done. Boris turned to
me, his color heightened by the crimson of the developing lamp. He licked his
lips.
“Y…you’re a homosexual, aren’t you?” The
tone was wary.
“I have lain with men,” I answered rather
pompously.
“That’s what you want with me, isn’t it?”
he rasped; his energy flaring alarmingly. “You want in my pants!”
“That is crude, Boris.”
“Oh, hell! You do! You want to…do things
to me. No way, Tancready! I don’t go for that stuff. I like my girl. We make
love. Oh, man, I knew something wasn’t right about this. Shit!” he cursed,
tearing off the protective apron I had given him for working with the darkroom
chemicals. Without another word, he slammed out of the room. I caught up with
him in the hallway.
“I gotta go now. Early class tomorrow,” he
babbled.
“Your prints, Boris! Your photographs?”
“I don’t know,” he waved a hand in the
air. “Maybe I’ll come get them later.”
The boy fled into the night. I sadly opened
the gate by remote control as his vehicle raced down the long drive. The house
was lonely and oppressive once he was gone. My black mood turned into rage.
They made love, did they? He and that… that girl! A bottomless jealousy tinted
the room an iridescent green, overpowering even my anger. Straightening things
in the darkroom and pulling prints from the dryer, I considered removing my
competition. It would be easy enough. I could sate my newly awakened blood
lust, turning it into a deadly feast. By a narrow margin, reason prevailed over
impetuosity. The female creature’s demise, especially in such a manner, would
excite unwelcome attention, not only from Boris, but also from the authorities.
Such a disastrous end to a magnificent, albeit a taxing day! Abruptly, I
abandoned the house.
*****
So we now know what a
Prescient is. But is Boris Balint one of them? If so, will he nurture or
threaten Tancready? It might not matter, because Boris fled Tancready’s house
upon learning the vampire had a lust for him. Upset, Tancready leaves his home
after Boris fled. Where will he go? How will he get there? What will he do? Has
his frustration made him dangerous?
Next week… more
Tancready.
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