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A vampire Serg and a witch Yvette
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"So you are." And now, of course, she has no idea what to say.

So she says the first thing that comes to mind, which is:

"You realize that you're screwing yourselves over. Vampires, as a species, I mean. If you would stop killing witches long enough we could teach a bunch of people magic and then suddenly everybody's delicious."

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"Ah, but if everybody knew magic, everybody might start believing in vampires, and that doesn't sound like it would be good for us at all."

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Snort. "What, don't feel like your reputation's won you any favors?"

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"We eat people. Not exactly the sort of thing that makes you popular at parties."

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"I guess not. But you don't - you made it very clear that you both don't need to completely eat people, and that you could -" Nope words aren't working again, she stops and tries again. "Could avoid making it hurt. That might make you popular at parties. ... Disreputable ones, admittedly, but you're a vampire. Unless for some reason you need to kill people?"

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"Having a nibble that doesn't go all the way will admittedly keep us alive, or as close to alive as we get, but it won't do much else. If we want power, we have to kill for it."

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"So set up with a government and provide state executions, pick off criminals that were going to hurt people anyway, show up at a warzone and offer pleasant mercy kills? I suppose it's not as convenient as just being able to slaughter your way to ultimate power, but if you make friends with humanity you can conceivably get to regularly bite consenting witches without having to play the stalking game."

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"But I like the stalking game."

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"So that's just. That's it, your life is stalking random women from the shadows, looking for the occasional witch you can have again for seconds?"

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"...and what if it is?"

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Wince. Good job, Avethana, way to probably piss off the vampire.

"I'd find it kind of empty and dull, personally."

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"Well, then, I'll be sure not to turn you into a vampire."

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Snort.

"Thanks. I don't think I'd like it very much."

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"The immortality part is nice, and you can get that without killing anyone!"

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"I'd miss the sun. I'd probably also be terrible at finding consenting subjects, and I'd insist upon having them, and promptly starve. And, you know, I'm holding out hope that maybe there's a way to magic myself immortality. It's not like any other witches publish their findings or anything."

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"Well, fair enough."

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"How common are we, anyway? Out of curiosity. You'd be more of an expert than I am."

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"Well, it's hard to tell, on account of you have such good reasons to keep quiet. But I usually catch at least a handful of you in a year."

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"Well," she says, after a slight pause to ignore the way that sentence makes her want to hide under the covers, "those are better numbers than I was expecting, actually. I'd thought there were less of us. Though - do you tend to leave them alive, or...?"

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"Not indefinitely."

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"Oh," she says, attempting nonchalant and missing by a mile.

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"But then, I also don't usually spend this long talking to them."

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"Have I won you over with my unstoppable charm?"

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"You are pretty charming!"

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She blinks.

"What, really? I was joking."

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