primusdux:

Well there are plenty to choose from, obviously, but yes, Rowan…

I did care for her in an odd kind of way. Though perhaps it was more the idea of her, a fiery Mayfair witch with all that beautiful androgyny about her and all that history! That was also around the time I was being haunted by the ghosts of Stella Mayfair and Oncle Julien. My mind was rather focussed, for a time, on the Mayfair’s it would seem.

As for turning her down well… I don’t say this lightly but I suppose I grew afraid of her power, and her history, and the Taltos and all of that. She, like so many other Mayfair’s was a very sexual woman in a way that only modern women can be. I felt, perhaps, that with Rowan… was the only time I was in over my head.