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The Man

Paul is a senior director at Fidelity Bank who most of his associates find a thoroughly banal man. He shares nothing about his personal life beyond “two ex-wives, no kids,” gives no indication of having any hobbies or outside interests, and rarely talks about anything besides work. He never yells or raises his voice, but most of his subordinates are afraid to do a bad job around him, even if they can’t say why.

Their instincts are not wrong. In reality, Paul is a predator with sexual appetites beyond the pale of any bank teller’s or middle manager’s imagination. Even seasoned escorts are hard-pressed to think of things he hasn’t done. Christina Roberts refuses to hire her girls out to him: she thinks they’d come back too damaged, or never come back at all. The girls who’ve survived Paul’s attentions think their pain, fear, and humiliation is what gets him off, but none of them think they know what goes on inside his head. Sometimes all he asks for is blowjobs and missionary. Other times, he attends sex parties with other rich degenerates and human predators who share his appetites. Some of the people who leave these parties only do so on stretchers.

Paul makes his home in Audubon Place, a gated community protected by armed guards. Their job is to ensure no one responds to the screams. Sometimes Paul invites them to join in. Female college students from Tulane and Loyola Universities are frequent guests at his house. He pays them for their company and most have no prior experience as escorts: ones who did would know to stay the hell away. Paul terms these girls “my whores” and it is upon them that he slakes his appetites. They’re easily and frequently replaced, whether they leave his home dead or alive: colleges sees continual turnover among the student body. It’s unknown how high Paul’s body count is, but for so long as Audubon Place’s walls remain strong and tall, few people outside the gated community will trouble themselves with such concerns.

The Ghoul

Unknown to his co-workers and acquaintances, Paul is a ghoul in the service of Donovan, the sheriff of New Orleans. Paul cultivates mortal pawns and contacts on his master’s behalf, maintains his haven, manages his finances, and not least of all, manages his herd: the girls from Tulane who serve as Paul’s “whores”. Paul has served in this role for some four decades and has no known dealings with Kindred beyond his domitor. Indeed, most Kindred are unaware of the ghoul’s existence. Paul may be content with this state of affairs or he may desire more. He may have always been this way or his domitor’s blood may have warped him into what he is.

But Kindred or kine, no woman who stares into the empty eyes above his plastic smile feels like anything but meat.

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