"Fuck that felt good," she says, sounding a little dazed.

"...good?"

Pause. "Huh?"

"As in, 'I'm really frustrated you're gay and not into me' good."

"… I– do you have a thing for biting or do you think it was the thing?"

"...I do kinda have a thing for biting but not that much of a thing for biting and I was definitely not in the mood, it was probably the—thing—whatever it is."

"...weeeeeird."

"This is just getting slightly weirder and slightly weirder." Sigh.

"What are you talking about this is the best part of the whole deal so far."

"The fact that you can get off while also supplying me with blood," he says, "is the best part of the whole deal so far." Sigh. "That kinda says something, I feel."

She snorts. "Well, when you put it like that."

"I mean, don't get me wrong, it's nice that it's not some sort of horrific torture setting or mind-control— are we even sure it isn't some sort of mind-control thing, because actually no it sounds sort of like a mind-control thing."

"I'm... not gonna complain about that, if it is, to be honest." She looks at her wrist, and it's already scabbing.

"… It feels extremely creepy to me that someone – if there are more vampires in the future or if there are already more vampires around – might bite someone against their will and then do that while doing it."

"Mmm, in addition to all the other creepiness? I mean, if the vampire's feeding and killing the person then giving them some nice last feelings is, well, better than not; if they're doing it consensually it's fine; and if it's nonconsensual it's not like a similar enough effect couldn't be achieved just with sway and superstrength and whatnot."

"I'm not saying that instead they should just bite them and cause horrible pain before killing them, I'm just expressing that it itself feels extremely creepy to me."

"And I just outlined all situations in which it could come up and it seems to be in general either a positive or a neutral, in context."

"Yep, and I'm still not saying it's worse than the alternatives in the contexts, I'm agreeing with you that it is in fact overall positive or neutral in those scenarios, but it continues to be creepy."

"I'm not sure what you mean by that, then."

"… I'm not really clear on how to define 'creepy', here," he responds. "But anyway, while it is in fact better than the alternative it's still not a wonderful alternative."

"None of these seem to be."

"Would be nice if I didn't have to feed on blood at all, so we should maybe see that soon-ish, how long I can go without blood before feeling hungry or something. Might turn out I never get worse than I currently am, just continually feel the urge to bite."

"We also didn't actually figure out if you can pull out of your own volition under normal circumstances."

"Nope," he agrees. "So we could try again."

Wrist.