"Or get blood bags or something, yeah."

"I feel slightly bad about doing that, though, especially since we don't know what my appetite will be like – don't want to cause deaths inadvertently by reducing the supply of blood available."

"You're gonna be saving lots of people by giving them blood, though, aren't you?"

"Yeah, but then it'd be better anyway if I fed off animals so I don't end up with that hopefully-slight negative to offset that."

"You'd need to find the animals, though."

"Right, but I mean – I can at least subsidize with animals or something; I'd prefer to try to limit how much I drink human blood if possible."

"'Cause it takes from people who might need it?"

"Yeah?"

"Have we determined animal blood is a perfect substitute for human blood, by the by?"

"Nope. Haven't even determined human blood sustains me indefinitely, though – I might drop dead in three days because I need some rare protein only found in one percent of the population or something."

"What a delightful possibility, if a bit less backed by mythology."

Shrug. "I'm not sure we should be hoping I'm only backed by mythology, because then my attributes might change if public perception changes – I do not want to sparkle in the sun – and also I don't think I have anything relating to bats yet and I'm pretty sure I don't want it?"

"I was thinking the other way around, mythology was probably influenced by vampires, so characteristics of mythical vampires are possibly good predictors of types of characteristics you might have."

"– But if I am in fact the first vampire, instead of having a lovely history of vampires who have influenced mythology, then we have no idea how the rules work." Shrug. "Would be really nice if we could confirm that either way."

"Short of going around and finding another vampire, I don't see how we would."

"Maybe I can put something up on Craigslist. 'Missed connection: vampire looking for maker'." Snort.

"You got a way to filter them for truth in mind?"

"Meet up and hope they'll show me theirs before I have to show them mine." Eyeroll.

"You could have them describe their purported powers in IMs or something and if they actually match up..."

"I'd never heard of vampire powers quite like these before."

"They don't seem to fit any of the major myths," agrees Theo. "Nor Twilight." (Sigh.)

"You seem weirdly fixated on that one."

He shrugs. "It's the only pop culture one that comes to mind right now."

"True Blood? The Vampire Diaries?"

"Bram Stoker's Dracula?"