By Octavia E. Butler
Doro is an entity who alterations our bodies like outfits, killing his hosts through reflex -- or layout. He fears not anyone -- until eventually he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can take in bullets and heal with a kiss...and savage an individual who threatens these she loves. She fears nobody -- till she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of the US, Doro and Anyanwu weave jointly a trend of future that no longer even immortals can think.
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Her earlier husbands would not have known her. She sought to make him value her and care for her. Thus she might have some leverage with him, some control over him later when she needed it. Much married as she was, she knew she would eventually need it. They were in the lowlands now, passing through wetter country. There was more rain, more heat, many more mosquitoes. Doro got some disease and coughed and coughed. Anyanwu got a fever, but drove it out of herself as soon as she sensed it. There was enough misery to be had without sickness.
A tall, lean young man confronted him at once. The young man spoke to Doro and when Doro answered, the young man's eyes widened. He took a step backward. Doro continued to speak in the strange language, and Anyanwu discovered that she could understand a few words—but not enough to follow the conversation. This language was at least more like her own than the new speech, the English, Doro was teaching her. English was one of the languages spoken in his homeland, he had told her. She had to learn it.
Finally, she brought his hand to her mouth again and there was more pain and pressure, but no more biting. She spat three times, each time returning to his hand, then she seemed to caress the wound with her tongue. Her saliva burned like fire. After that she kept a watch on the hand, attending it twice more with that startling, burning pain. Almost at once, the swelling and sickness went away and the wound began to heal. "There were things in your hand that should not have been there," she told him.
