Part three of this ongoing series, we are publishing an exclusive interview with Miss V, a professional Succubus.

Compass: You say you often work with children, I’d expect that most people would have reservations about hiring a succubus therapist for their child.

Miss V: Tactful.  I like that.  I don’t hide what I am Lyle, but I don’t push it in people’s faces either.  Given the stories surrounding succubi and incubi, I tend to be careful about other people’s opinions, especially when it comes to my career.  However, given my talents, I tend to have a high success rate when it comes to children.  They’re much more in touch with their emotions and that makes it a lot easier to deal with them.

Compass: You use your powers in your professional life?  Isn’t that a conflict of interest?

Miss V: What conflict?  Doctors of all stripes use their abilities to treat their patients.  Journalists like yourself use all your talents to get the best stories.  Why should I cripple myself because of what I am?  The children are in no danger from me.  For one thing, they’re awake when I counsel them.

Compass: Awake?  Does that mean that…

Miss V: Yes.  People are really only in danger from succubi when they’re asleep.  Taking someone’s energy and life is time consuming, and uncomfortable for them.  And really unnecessary for us to live.  We’re monsters, but we’re not villains.

Interview with a Vamp is a new weekly column featured in the London Compass.

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Part two of this ongoing series, we are publishing an exclusive interview with Miss V, a professional Succubus.

Compass: Fairly ordinary.  There is something special tho?

Miss V: Well, yes.  The myths didn’t start on their own.  Succubi like myself can touch people’s dreams, and we can take power from other people’s emotions.

Compass: But a Professional?

Miss V: I hire myself out to others who are having trouble at night.  We can help people sleep if we try, or keep nightmares at bay.  You’d be surprised how many people bring me in to soothe the night terrors of children.

Compass: I’m surprised, given the horrible reputation that Succubi must have.  How do you overcome those stereotypes?

Miss V: Honestly?  I don’t mention them.  I’m an actual therapist, having finished my degree before my powers surfaced, and I only use my abilities when I’m out of other options.  Despite the undeserved reputation, people do have a right to feel cautious.  There are several well documented cases of a Succubus turning against the population.  I personally like to think they were driven to it, but  there’s no way of telling now.

Interview with a Vamp is a new weekly column featured in the London Compass.

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The London Compass has the privilege of being one of the first newspapers to interview a creature of mythology.  In this ongoing series, we will be publishing an exclusive interview with one of the supernatural’s most elusive predators.  Our correspondent is sitting with Miss V, a professional Succubus.

Compass: Miss V, could you clarify exactly what a succubus is for our readers?

Miss V: Well, according to mythology, a Succubus is a demon who haunts the dreams of men and steals their strength at night.  It’s utter bunk, but then again, the myths were written by old men who had far too rich of fantasy lives.  We’re not demons, tho a lot of people like to say we are, we start our lives as mortals, and most of us have no idea what we are until we reach adulthood.

Compass: We?  There are more Succubuses?  Succubi?

Miss V: Oh yes.  There are quite a number of us just in London.  We’re more or less harmless members of society, most of us hold careers.  For the most part we’re fairly ordinary people.

Interview with a Vamp is a new weekly column featured in the London Compass.

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