Absinthe & Cookies (a bit bitter, a bit sweet)

I love the idea of "First Sunrise"! My curiosity is piqued as to how the sun of a different world would not have any affect on Vampire Kind. I also like that First Sunrise becomes something that both men and women can appreciate, rather than a perceptively "female" holiday foisted on reluctant men.

Thanks, Sharon :) I almost did it as a flashback from a First Sunrise Ball 100 years later, but then it would have negated my pledge to write a short story!

As for the radiation from a red giant sun not affecting Earth vampires, I have no idea! It seemed like a good idea at the time. I think it had something to do with different types of radiation. But as Joss Whedon says, I don't know what an Ion storm is, and I don't care! [snicker] When we started writing these stories nearly ten years ago, it was a group effort. Each one of us would write alternating stories, and we'd hash out ideas in IRC. So the genesis of some of these things is kinda murky now. Like in Nin's stories, she wrote in that vampires could sense Changelings, so during the Dominion War, vampires performed a necessary and needed function. Our general idea being that every thing, every species, fulfills a purpose. We just might not know what that is.

I understand completely! LOL Im one of those anal retentive geeks gets nosy about things like that - am learning that the creative muse DOES have a logic to it, its just not going to come out all at once. The fun thing I am learning about writing in fan fiction is to "play" again, like playing with dolls.

I used to call looking up reasons for some of the things I wrote about 'research' but now I just call it "hunting wabbit." Darn those plot bunnies...most distracting things in the world! LOL

I really enjoyed reading this story - you're an excellent writer!

Cheers,
Ben

Ben, thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed the story :)