Mai is a Toreador of the city of Detroit, having previously been a Toreador Kindred Lawyer in the city of New Orleans, and having no desire to go back to that particular unlife. She is the childe of Winston Adonis When Mai was a mortal, she lived on a Hopi reservation in Arizona, in relative poverty. At a young age, she ran away from home to New York City where fate led her to Winston, a poet whose work she admired. She followed him to soirees and cocktail parties, and became the lovely trophy he would take with him to almost any occassion, and his sometimes lover. She agreed to the embrace, knowing it would lead to a more interesting life, and hopefully more glamourous life, than what she had previously led. She was correct on one count.
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