Then, bedded atop cushions of dark blood, the blonde neck of a white woman. The sun ravaged her hair and licked the length of her pale thighs and kneeled around her browner *******, yet to be deformed by vice or birth. Next to her lay the *****: horsesβ hooves had stamped his eyes and brow to a pulp. He dug two of the toes on his ***** left foot deep into her small white ear. She, though, lay and slept like a bride: at the brink of happiness, of first love as before the outbreak of a wave of Ascensions of warm, youthful blood. That is, until the blade sank into her white throat and spilt an apron of dead purple blood about her waist.