"...I'm glad you're enjoying it." 

"I don't know anything at all about you. I assume you're a high schooler."

"I am. — junior year, I'm sixteen." 

"I'm 21. And before you say 'but how long have you been 21,' the answer is like eight months."

"You'll be carded for all eternity." 

"Would have waited, but I was kind of dying, so..."

"I'm glad you aren't doing that anymore," he says, sincere. 

"Cancer. Not recommended. 0/10."

"I bet." 

"And now I'm a vampire and I dance and do math and I'm teaching myself physics and trying to figure out how to publish in psych journals given that I'm legally dead."

"Do people still publish under pseudonyms or did that die with the turn of the century or was it never actually a thing?" 

"Turn of the century. They want you to have an institutional affiliation these days. And 'not violate research ethics.'"

"That makes sense. Also please do not violate research ethics those are kind of important." 

"For you I'd be happy to."

That's a little much but it's significantly better than not! 

"Also because that's probably on the list of reasons your boyfriend would torture me!"

"That is true." 

"Your boyfriend would torture me about all the things that would make me before go 'aaaaaagh' but not the things that would make him go 'hm, okay, I guess.' --Me before was like 'well, vampires don't have any particular reason to murder people, and I don't want to murder anybody now, so probably it will be fine' and then it turned out that murder is fun."

"That is.... probably not wrong, yeah." 

"It was a bad decision on his part but now I exist and I don't have a problem with any of it! Except that I don't want to make you sad or make your boyfriend want to torture me unless he'd get off on it."

"He would not. And I'm glad that I'm in a position to cause that to not happen." 

Asher curls up on Sasha's shoulder and starts petting his hair. "I'm doing too much talking."

Sasha finds a place to sit down and pets Asher's hair. "If you want to ask questions instead I can answer them." 

"Man, I don't know. What do you do all day besides being menaced by various supernatural creatures?"

"I go to school, I hang out with my boyfriends, I read, I'm thinking about trying to teach myself German but finding resources is going slowly. Until pretty recently I spent a lot of time tracking gossip so I wouldn't get caught up in the drama but that might count as getting menaced by supernatural creatures since the source of the gossip was Lilith."