Books: exist!

It's hard to tell whether she has in fact outright doubled the paper population of this castle, because he doesn't keep all his books in one place, they're scattered all around in a bunch of different rooms. But the selection is plenty respectable, either way.

Ooh. Anything on magic?

Surprisingly little, actually. Maybe there's more among the books in foreign languages, of which there are quite a few.

She speaks a couple of foreign languages, it's a Respectable thing for a young lady to learn. She investigates the books in those.

Overwhelmingly not about magic!

Oh well. She picks out some interesting-looking ones and goes back to the bedroom, curls up next to Tasfal and starts reading.

This collection of northern fairy tales will be happy to keep her company while her undead lover is sleeping!

Mm this is so nice. She considers reaching over and petting his hair and decides that his resemblance to a corpse might make it weird. Fairy tales!

He actually does move in his sleep a little, which if anything makes the resemblance to a corpse even weirder.

Sometime in the early afternoon - it's hard to tell exactly when, given the lack of windows - he yawns and stretches and opens his eyes and smiles affectionately at her.

"Good not-morning." Kiss. "It's a little odd how corpselike you are when you're asleep."

Kiss. "Really? I guess I don't breathe when I'm sleeping, but does it make that much of a difference?"

"That and the fact that you're cold." She snuggles up in an attempt to remedy the cold.

Aww. He wraps his arms around her and nuzzles the side of her neck.

She giggles. "Mm. Cuddliest vampire."

"Well, you're very cuddleable."

"Mm." She cuddles him some more, presumably in agreement. "Is it just the warmth?"

He giggles and nuzzles her again, affectionately. "Not just, no."

"Good. I'd hate to think I wasn't special."

"No fear of that." Mm. Cozy nuzzles.

Mm, cozy.

"So what do you do all day--well, night--when you're not stalking maidens?"

"Magic, flying, the occasional book..."

"Sounds like the life."

"It's nice!"

"Mhm.

How would you feel about taking me back to the city every now and then to continue my nightlife?"

"Oh, that sounds like fun."