[@Jbcool] Feel free, if it appeals to you. The obvious point if you do is to skip to after the sex, but there's also a potential need to go over what external alterations Darran's made to the Countess' body, as well as how he avoided being stabbed to death. Perhaps by threatening to cut some important muscles, to make it impossible to retract the bone blades or what have you, since obviously that'd instantly ostracise her from the polite society she likes to pretend she's still part of.