Dark Needs at Night's Edge

DARK NEEDS AT NIGHT'S EDGE

A femme fatale? With a history of burlesque dancing? You must have the wrong girl. I'm naught but a humble ballet dancer, a mere delicate sparrow.

—Néomi Laress, prima ballerina, former femme fatale and burlesque dancer

(b. approx. 1901—d. August 24, 1927)

I hereby vow to devote my life to annihilating the vampiir. None shall know my presence and live.

—Conrad Wroth, age thirteen, upon being inducted into the Order of Kapsliga Uur in the year 1609