This was before the Awakening, and there was no way he could know what I really was for I’d found ways to disguise my true form. Oh, I appeared human, for the most part. My features were more delicate, perhaps, than most. And I was very thin. But my skin was as black as it ever was, and my hair was dark then, too. Some of the developments in the twenty-first century weren’t all bad. I’d seen that blondes really don’t have more fun, and I found that auburn really didn’t suit me.