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[shamebat]

Hello, this is Nadja. Please leave a message and I will return to it later.

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[shamebat]

I mean, I don't think it's such a big shame. He can turn into a bat and has untold number of gifts he traded for eternal life.

But yes, sometimes he gets a little sad. I can smell it on him.

[no_innocents]

Yes, of course.

Do your taste anything in the blood you take?

[shamebat]

If they are on drugs or have a lot of alcohol in them, we can feel like we are on drugs too.

This one time we drank drug blood from some people going to a club and...well, it was very intense. I do not need to tell you all that we did that night.

[no_innocents]

Yes, I have noticed the trend.

Perhaps find one that has enjoyed an apple brandy?

[shamebat]

I would but I think the Admiral wants us to not drink blood directly from the source.

[no_innocents]

The thought was more aimed towards when you're home. Perhaps he could even brew the brandy from his apple orchards.

[shamebat]

He has two or three trees. Hardly an orchard.

So maybe we invite a victim to the house. Make them drunk on apple brandy. And then bite them?

[no_innocents]

I don't see why you shouldn't. A drink for a drink, eh?

[shamebat]

We are wardens. I've never gone so long without killing: have you? And yet you're here encouraging me to slip into bad behavior.

[no_innocents]

Oh, certainly. I've gone quite some time without killing. Mostly by avoiding people.

And you don't have to kill to feed... or do you? I've certainly tasted instead of overindulging.

[shamebat]

It is very exhausting to hypnotize people into forgetting you are biting them. No one knows vampires exist where we come from.

[no_innocents]

...

...that is... ridiculous.

[ A hand raised quickly. ]

Not you, Nadja. I am just... amazed.

[shamebat]

Yes, well. The human population is really...something in the 21st century. Very large and very stupid. And the science of the 19th has pretty much done away with men's ideas of magic. Even Laszlo doesn't believe in things I know in my bones are the truth.

[no_innocents]

Magic has it's place, as does science. Only a fool denies one or the other.

[shamebat]

Fine. But science's place is not in the bedroom where it can be brought up all suddenly and with annoying diagrams. Can we agree on that?

[no_innocents]

...only if one's partner enjoys such things. Otherwise, certainly not, no.

[shamebat]

I do not like to be told I am wrong about the world in any way. I do not know any woman who does.

[no_innocents]

That's what he was using it for?

For fuck's sake-

Discussion may be... enjoyable between a couple. Something like that is beyond asinine. You're absolutely right, Nadja.

[shamebat]

Thank you, Lord Dracula.

[she's preening. Goddamn right]

I love him. He is overly skeptical of magic. He doesn't even believe in ghosts!