"I don't know, I've known a lot of people with your coloration who got it by killing people. It's certainly an option."
"So, Maggie, you mentioned sparkling. And it being pretty. Would it be patronizing and weird to ask you to demonstrate?"
The backyard is currently experiencing its day cycle, says the bar. If that is deemed too risky I could provide a directional ultraviolet lamp for you to borrow.
"Huh," says Maggie. "Right, what do you all say to those options?"
"Hey!"
(The bumpy contingent nods in agreement.)
Suzanna stares at her, neglecting to breathe. "Pretty," she sighs.
*This is sarcasm. Intellectual curiosity is not involved in any part of this question.
"Thank Someone for that. Love is disgusting. I'll pass, pretty as you are."
"I think that the risk alone would bar me entirely from your world. That means I'm either sneaking into Lavinia's world when her door comes back, or I'm going with one or more of the weird triplicate vamps. Though there's no need to pack up just yet, I'm just looking at my options."
"Well, I don't know that that's fair! You could've told her you brought me in and I'd've fucked off to California and not bothered you again. Unless we became pen pals or something."
"I wasn't suggesting that you put me up for a week until I got my feet back! She wouldn't even accept me setting foot on her soil in order to immediately hop off it? It's not like I'd poach on her land, I happen to enjoy not being a pile of dust."
Just "Bar", please. €8.45 for my next suggestion.
Maggie produces euros and gets something fizzy and gold.
"...We don't speak English. There's a vampire language, with regional dialects, and a bunch of other languages. The planet's a square, I think that's unusual. There's plenty of magic; I'm three kinds of magic and I was only born with one of those. One sun. Plants, animals, oceans, land, air, what do you want to know?"
"I live in a country with a appointment-based parliament that can be removed by popular referendum," says Leekath. "One of my dads is in Parliament and I work for him. There's a neighboring country that's a kingdom, and some others elsewhere, and theocracies and representative democracies and so on."