She had come so close to going over the edge. To just turning into the monster that vampires were rumored to be, and she knew that it was a slippery slope. She knew that when Damian killed himself and when Maddie left, she almost gave into her blood lust out of sheer anger at her friends. Damian for refusing to turn to her with his problems, Maddie for allowing her to think that she had joined him. Wynter hunted in the forest, slaughtering everything that she came across. Rabbits, deer, everything that she could and drained them. Professor Satagori was ready to kill her for the pile of bodies she left around his forest, but she didn't care. She had to get the aggression out and it killed her to keep the body count away from her wife. She didn't even know if Alannah knew what she had done to all of those animals, but it helped her from slaughtering numerous students and random Salem residents.

Wynter knew that there was no one in the world who was better for her than Alannah. She was the one person in the world who knew all of her demons, individually named them and danced happily with the beasts. She tamed her wild spirit and gave her a new fire to engulf her. She was everything that she never knew she wanted and it was the most wonderful feeling in the world. Alannah, many years her senior. A pirate captain in her glory days, a stunning seductress who could drop the jaws or the pants of anyone who she looked at once. Twice and she would snare their heart. Instead Alannah was all hers. A woman who wanted her for everything in the world and for all of the time in the world. There was nothing better than that.

Her fangs ached in her mouth just thinking about all of the places that she wanted to sink into Alannah. How she wanted to take her right there on the dance floor with everyone watching. How she wanted to slowly strip the woman of her dreams, but maybe keep the mask on. Keep it dangerous. She knew that everything about her life was dangerous. She knew that the first time she went home with Alannah and was nearly bled dry from it. When her body got cold and she could barely move, she thought that she made the most critical mistake of her life, but it proved to be the best thing she ever could have done. Going home with Alannah it started her on this whole new adventure. Allowed her to become the vampire she was, allowed her to have an eternal future with her life.

She wanted something that would look a bit old fashioned. Something that would give Alannah an idea of what it would have been like to have her there with her all of those years ago. If they could have met when dresses like this were common. Had all of those extra years together to enjoy all of the bounty of the world. When Wynter could have been on ships with Alannah. Exploring with her wife, protecting her from anything that the world could throw at them.
"Why do we insist on wearing clothes around each other, my love?"