Fine, fine. Though really, I think you'll be disappointed. [ heaving an overdramatic sigh- ] It's "Auberon." Diminutive of Alberich, if you must know. Sir Shakespeare may have been a genius, but he certainly wasn't afraid to take from myth and legend, you know?

[ it all has the ring of truth. it's something she could look up scholars and papers on, if she so chose. and yet, like this, each dream has made one thing clearer and clearer:

he lies--and he lies-

and he lies!

and through it all, he reaches out, strokes at the place where her normally-hidden nape of her neck lays vulnerable- ]

I'm sorry. I shouldn't have kept it from you.