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cease to exist.”

GoGo could not hold back her grief. “And this is what you want for my son, thy prince, a

life without living, death without dying? To never enjoy the taste of food, to hunger only for

blood, to never again feel the warmth of a human hand, to never again know the ecstasy of a

woman’s womb?”

“He can have sensation, but only with another vampire,” Sooth said.

“No! No! Noooo!” GoGo dropped to the ground. She wept profoundly and without shame.

Zuba, Daka and the others rushed out into the cave tunnel and ran toward her. Sooth

stopped them with his hand.

“Our queen must find her own way to the decisions that will have to be made.”

Chapter 6
GoGo’s Rubicon

The hours seemed like days. The days seemed like weeks. GoGo stayed by Omar’s bedside as he

lay unconscious. Sooth kept a vigilant watch over both of them knowing what she must have been
going through, the decision she must make, a decision beyond comprehension only days ago.

Sygnosis was left to hang in chains on the cave wall. Sooth entered the cave every day
with a goat or sheep. He butchered the animal in front of her and drained its blood into a cup

attached to a long wooden pole. He lifted the pole to her mouth and fed her. She drank.
“Release me,” she said.

Sooth ignored her. His only concern was that she not expire from hunger, at least until the
queen had decided Omar’s fate, a fate to which Sygnosis’ own life was now tied.

Sooth’s days and nights were dutiful. Since, like Sygnosis, he did not sleep, he was able to
attend to Omar around the clock. He kept him cool, or warm if need be. He rubbed his skin with

emollient to keep it supple.
Zuba spent the waiting days observing Sygnosis and asking her questions about