September 21, 2007 (Chimes / Matt Decker) -- Bat spit is a hot commodity in science circles these days. An enzyme known as Desmoteplase has been found in the saliva of vampire bats, according to the Science Daily. This enzyme is known to be a naturally occurring, clot-dissolving agent.

Several weeks had elapsed since the conversation in Reginald Clarke's studio. The spring was now well advanced and had sprinkled the meadows with flowers, and the bookshelves of the reviewers with fiction. The latter Ernest turned to good account, but from the flowers no poem blossomed forth.

Reality, the troublesome thing that clamps,

hard

Onto your mind, which refuses to allow it to stretch

to the end of the universe

But instead, with bitter,

banality,

Not allowing the imagination to flow,

Not allowing thought,

Not allowing anything

but the dreary

existence

day

to

day

without

feeling

without

living.

If only I could break free

If only

I

could

*waking in the room, Saraphine knows that she is in the Black Raven Inn. Not knowing nor remembering how she got there, she is still very groggy and can't see very well, she can make out a figure standing over her*

"Hello? Who are you and where am I?" She manages to stammer before falling back asleep.

Saraphine Anura
14 May 2001

So long I've supressed this midnight hunger
And hidden from Night's dark embrace
I have not waltzed over Twilight's embers
Nor felt the moon's kiss on my face

And yet one look upon your hand's writings
Your drawing blood, and I am caught
They awaken, all my darkest cravings
And graces I had long forgot

And so I dance with light and shadows
I pray, and I am most afraid
For its from my tomb your visage tears me
Shreds all the safety I had made.