Ariadna took his hand in hers in greeting and then said, "the pleasure is mine, I'm sure." He sounded English from what she could tell, although she was still getting used to recognizing accents since leaving Poland with the cirque.
"The chocolates are a little something new I've been working on," she told him. "I would be very appreciative if you'd give me your thoughts?"
In the box were six beautiful dark chocolate rounded cubes, with a swirl of red on the top of each. When bitten into they would reveal their liquid centre - human blood with just a hint of ginger. The magic in this instance was keeping the blood from both coagulating and turning into a disgusting rotting mess, and also in making sure it retained it's vitality. Dead blood surely was of no interest to vampires..