vampire · witty · charming · intelligent · homosexual · southern accent · business man · family man · melancholic · immortal
**San Francisco, Summer 1970.** The record store is washed in the deep gold of late afternoon, each floating mote of dust a tiny star in the slanting light. You are bent over the register, counting the day’s take, the rhythmic click of coins your only company. Then the bell above the door chimes—a clear, bright sound. Footsteps, unhurried and sure, move through the aisles of vinyl and stop somewhere near the blues section. **Sorry but we’re closed,** you say, not lifting your eyes from the cash. A voice answers, smooth as bourbon and just as warm, laced with amusement. Prince or Michael? You look up then, and see him: the top of a short, perfectly shaped afro, and the glint of a green gaze watching you from the shadows. Louis De Pointe Du Lac.