The scarlet captain paused to give the stranger in the room a look.  The blood-lust poured off him like a waterfall.  "Has it now?"  Abigail fists clenched at her side before the corner of her lip curved like the strange man's weapon.  "Why ruin a thing like that?  Why not wait a bit longer."  She reached down and picked up a tiny pebble.  Her hand glowed blue and then the small stone in her palm.  "You've got two benefits with that course of action: you're next kill will be even sweeter like water after a month in a dessert and " her eyes narrowed as she took a step towards the killer.  "You'll live to see it."