Interview with the Lesbian Vampire Cougars
Interview 3: Regina the Muse
People sometimes wonder what I do to my quarry, as the matron of this household they assume I must be the cruellest of the cruel, one who's sadism trumps my daughters in every way shape and form, one who is indeed a native of hell must know cruelty and how to inflict suffering and mortals like no other.
And yes, you would be right to an extent, should the mood take me I would have no trouble committing such horrors upon my victims, I know all of you so well I've literally been with you since the beginning. Though when we first met you were all much smaller and hairier and easier to frighten, you didn't have much of a vocabulary when we first met, our conversations were usually something along the lines of 'no, no, please don't, stop it you're hurting me'.
But that's not my primary pleasure anymore; I find it much more riveting to engage all you lovely mortals intellectually, emotionally and spiritually. I believe the best way to describe me would be as a muse.
Allow to me to give you an example, a time I spent with a lovely young budding artist, an Asian woman who made an extraordinary sculpture. She worked with clay, she made amazing, vivid sculptures of beautiful, graceful women who figures moved so eloquently you'd think they were moving even if they were still, whose features so lifelike you'd think them flesh with the right coat of paint, and who are so lovely you'd fall in love at first sight. I should know I was the model for them.
I met this beautiful soul, her name was Li; she was a lovely woman, a gentle maiden nearing the dreaded age of 30, where she comes from this is something of a death sentence where she is still single and without children. She wanted nothing more in life than to be an artist and pursue her passions, find success and prestige and love; a simple and otherwise understandable dream but all too often requited in this dreary world, just one more reason I need to take over and make it so that isn't the case anymore.
I met this woman purely by chance, she had recently finished an art degree at a decent school, she came to LA like many others to pursue dreams of stardom only to find them quashed by bad luck and harsh, brutal reality. She had little more than a ratty studio apartment in north Hollywood, something with barely enough room for the basic amenities of life, but even then she still had a makeshift studio to keep up her sculpting. She was having trouble paying the rent and could barely make ends meet on her salary, I met her through a friend of a friend, I actually rarely travel outside the circles of LA's underworld you understand, not so much elitism as it is a necessity of security, being who I am there's a small army of people around the world who'd want a literal piece of me, I'd rather avoid that if it's all the same to you.
I love people, I love this world, if I had the free, or rather when I have the freedom, I would walk the streets freely, speak my mind to all who would listen and gladly shower love upon each and every soul I meet. For now however I must limit my time and energy to those who I find are worth that effort. Mind you that's not elitism either, everyone has the potential to wonderful and kind and interesting deep down, it just takes time and patience to bring it out, but in the mean time I can't really afford to do that so for the time being I simply have to pick and choose those I like and weed out the undesirables, otherwise I would love to travel the world and find every lovely little soul who needs me.
When I met Li it was love at first sight, certainly for her; not a surprise mind you, I have often been called a goddess because I literally am, and she like so many others worshipped me. She begged for me to come with her to her studio, she didn't want a commission, she just wanted me to model for her, and that really was it she didn't even consider asking for sex, she said herself that mine was the greatest beauty that could exist in this world and she wanted to capture it in clay. After so long you'd think I'd grow tired of such adoration, but no I do enjoy it, I enjoy being the goddess, I enjoy being the centre of attention, I enjoy being the object of love, lust, adoration, and I do enjoy showering it upon others too.
I followed her to her studio; she was excited and anxious to make a good impression, she wasn't expecting company and she had all the tell-tale signed of depression and other assorted mental illness. There was little room here for more than one person, barely what I'd call a living space; a small kitchen, a small bed, maybe a little workspace for a computer, and at the centre of it and the centre of life a table and stool where little bits of dried clay had been left about. It was the centre of her life, used and worn over a number of years; along with the bed it was the only thing in this place that had seen regular use.