Nyrielle didn't need to feed the moment she woke. It had been quite some time since she pushed herself so close to her limits the way she had when Ashlynn first became her Seneschal, and her hunger was rarely insistent enough to need attention as soon as she woke.
When she drank from Ashlynn's wrist, Nyrielle took little more than a single mouthful of Ashlynn's blood before stopping. Just that much, with the richness and power of life that suffused her lover's entire body, and she could easily go another five or more days without needing to feed again, so long as she wasn't exerting herself.
If not for the need to create a Blood Vitality Crystal once a week for Ritchel, and the Blood Potency Crystals she'd created for the sword Erkembalt was building for Ashlynn, Nyrielle wouldn't have fed on anyone other than Ashlynn since they'd returned to the Vale of Mists.
