Cirque Noir

"Human beings do not seek pleasure and avoid displeasure. What human beings want, whatever the smallest organism wants, is an increase of power; driven by that will they seek resistance, they need something that opposes it - displeasure, as an obstacle to their will to power, is therefore a normal fact; human beings do not avoid it, they are rather in continual need of it"

Absinthe eyes drowned in those words, a heady cocktail of gin and philosophy permeating the air surrounding the blonde with that patent unapproachability that contradicted the vampiric allure his blood cast upon pale features—the tilt of a chin, the arch of a slender wrist, all enticing and protected by the air of ( a discontented housecat. )