November
Lucy's Age: 4
Tonight I celebrated. Most of the time when I need to feed I simply take from among the homeless and the junkies, but occasionally, in special instances, I treat myself to something extra.
Venice has shown another burst of remarkable progress. Her mental shields are stronger and stronger each day and she's showing a real flair for unarmed combat. We haven't progressed to anything too complicated yet, but she seems to have an instinctive sense of which openings are just feints and which ones are opportunities that need to be pursued with everything she has.
The physical activity, along with increasingly infrequent mental constructs, has served to distract her from the last of her suicidal tendencies. After nearly beating her to death last time, Imastious then proceeded to make himself scarce for nearly two months, which meant that he didn't have a good feel for where Venice was at mentally, or physically, when he finally did come back.
Obviously I wasn't there when it happened, and Venice wasn't in much of a position to relate events to me when I dropped back in for a visit, but from the visual evidence as well as the bits and pieces that she was able to relate to me, it appears that Imastious tried to take advantage of her again and she connected with an elbow strike to his throat.
That's not actually something I'd taught her, but it demonstrates a certain level of raw aggression that I can't help but be proud of. Unfortunately rather than following up with a killing blow she proceeded to kick him in the ribs. Once the initial advantage of having surprised him so completely had passed, Venice was no match for Imastious and he ended up throwing her into the bars of her cage with enough force to kill a normal human.
Despite the advantages the change brings our kind it was nearly enough to kill Venice as well.
It's entirely possible despite my best efforts that I've left too much of a trail inside of Venice's mind, that or Imastious ultimately may not even care whether he has any proof.
Under either of those scenarios I'm going to end up paying for my audacity in pain when Imastious decides to torture me, but hopefully I've succeeded in binding Venice to me more tightly as a result of all of this.
All in all the occasion felt worthy of a celebration, so I went to one of the more popular nightclubs in the city and picked up a delicious young woman who was barely into her twenties.
Things with Venice are long past the point where I'm using the imminent threat of nudity as a punishment, but since she's started returning to a healthier weight I've started to find her more and more attractive. Her reward, although I can't term it as such because of the high probability that Imastious will eventually break into her mind again, was a new set of clothes to replace the rags that she was captured in.
My pretext for providing the clothes was that she needed something presentable for when Imastious ordered us to move onto training the interpersonal skills like seduction. Predictably she threw them against the walls of the cage and yelled profanities at me, but when I returned the next day she was wearing them and not only did she seem happier, she was really quite fetching in them.
Her reward was clothing and mine was a meal that tested the bounds of my decision never to be like Imastious and let the desires of the flesh get in the way of the goals that I've set for myself.