Yeah. Yeah. That's... yeah. That's Tas. He really is like this. He gave her the best night of her life and then gave her the end of her life, and now he's giving her a fresh start. And he cares, in that strange unbelievable intense genuine way. She's not sure she's ever been cared about like that before.

She settles into his lap and closes her eyes contentedly.

He holds her and pets her and... cares.

...eventually, though...

"Um," she says, "where's the bathroom?"

He chuckles. "Just through there," he says, pointing at the double doors opposite the balcony. "First on your left."

She kisses him on the cheek and disentangles herself from the nest-bed and gets up and goes to the bathroom. It's a perfectly recognizable bathroom and does not look like it belongs on a space future porn planet at all. Maybe he had it built especially for his resurrection project. Vampire porn is probably pretty lucrative on space future porn planets, right?

Anyway. Back to the cuddle nest.

Tasfal is talking to a holographic projection as she leaves the bathroom. "—yeah, I'll talk to you later." The projection flickers out before she has a chance to see the face.

"Who were you talking to?" she wonders as she climbs back into bed.

"So, this is the part where it gets weird," he begins.

She snorts. "Ah yes. This. The part where it gets weird. As opposed to all of the other things that have happened since I met you, none of which were weird in the slightest."

—he cracks up.

She giggles and scoots over into his lap.

He wraps his arms around her and kisses the top of her head. "You're adorable. No, really, though. This is the part where it gets weird in a totally new way, different from all the weird things that came before it."

"Go on."

"That was Serafin on the phone," he says. "And Serafin is... me?"

"What, like... your space future porn planet clone?"

He giggles again. "No. Not exactly. More like... I came to Earth in the 1600s, from a different world where magic exists, and on Earth in the 1600s it didn't. And then hundreds of years later, right around when space exploration was starting to reach as far as other star systems, Serafin was born. And he has my face and my personality—though just to make everything that little bit weirder, his parents were nothing like my parents—and when he was around the age I was when I was turned into a vampire, he got on a spaceship and came to the porn planet and did some really ill-advised things that ended up giving him immense magical power. We didn't meet until a couple hundred years after that, though, when I finally came here to see what all the fuss was about, and somebody mistook me for him and suggested we should meet."

"...all right," she concedes, "I will grant you that that is very differently weird."

He smiles crookedly. "Yeah. Anyway, sometimes we do weird porn together, and we share interesting magic with each other."

"Two of you. Doing weird porn together. My goodness," she marvels, blushing slightly. "That must be a sight to see."

He grins. "We could watch some, if you want."

...she blushes harder. "Oh. Wow. Um. Wow. ...maybe?"

He laughs and hugs her. "Up to you! It's really hot, though."

"Is it, um... the two of you, or..."

"There's pretty much always at least one more person. We're not especially into each other but we're very into sharing."

Blush blush blush. "That, um. That sounds... really good."