Theo bites his lip and looks away, trying to calm down.

He turns to face Willow and walks over to her. "Okay, yeah, history of evil soulless monsters? How about it. Sounds like fun."

"Right. So, there's a Slayer, one teenage girl every generation, when the previous one dies the next one activates, all that. Um, that's it for history, I guess? There's a bunch of famous vampires, we don't know which are real. Dracula's here, but he's probably just a legend, this says even staking him isn't enough because he bounces back."

Theo bites his lip again, then says, "Well. I hope he's a legend, because otherwise that's kinda scary. I already knew about the Slayer, though – Sadde told me."

"Yeah, it would be nice to have one so Sadde wouldn't have to carve his soul into pieces," she says without looking at him.

"Yeah, it would be," he responds somewhat sadly. "Any other great potential weapons against the onslaught of evil? I'm guessing not."

"None obvious. Martial arts training and carrying crosses and holy water helps."

"Yeah. Okay. Are there any other important things about vampires or have you pretty much covered everything from this?" He waves in the direction of the book.

"Oh, no, there's lots more, just not about history. There's psychology, reproduction, society, physiology, powers, aging, feeding, weaknesses, and general trivia."

"... I now have a morbid curiosity about reproduction and feeding. Plus the psychology. Plus their powers."

"The psychology is really just being murderous sociopaths. Vampires retain all memories of when they were human, and a sorta similar personality, but they're evil."

"... Uh huh, and like I said, never want to do that myself because: scary. What about reproduction and feeding?"

"Reproduction's bad. They drain the victim of all blood, and the victim rises as one of them next sundown."

"Uh-huh. Okay. Well, at least there's a gap before they come back as a vampire," he says, sounding like he's trying to be optimistic. Then something occurs to him: "Uh, so, if Hans had totally drained me of blood... Well, thanks again, Sadde."

"Oh, I forgot to mention the vampire has to give the victim some of their own blood before they die. Like, feed them some."

"Oh. So I might not have become a vampire, depending on whether he decided to turn me before he killed me."

Theo is really conflicted about things, but it might not be obvious.

"Good thing he's too dead to make that decision now."

"Yyyeah."

He's now a little worried about his own thoughts, but again, might not be obvious.

"So. Um. Is feeding just as obvious as it seems? Bite and nom?"

"What else would it be?"

"I don't know, but you mentioned it as a thing the book covered, and I thought there might be more to it than that. Or is that just the section where the book goes into the horribly gruesome and/or weird details?"

Again, he gets the conflicted look that appears in conjunction with vampire feeding. Sigh.

"Oh, the book goes on a bit about habits, what happens when they don't feed, that kind of thing."

She cannot decipher the look, and Sadde is too busy being half-dead to notice it.

"Things like... what? General moodiness? A sudden desire to bite random things around them? Going into a frenzy and attacking everyone and everything around them? I really don't know much about vampires."

That's fine; the look isn't really meant for them anyway.

"Things like how it's suspected they can live off other mammals but just prefer humans, or how biting can be very pleasurable to the victim, or how starving can make them weak or damage their minds. A vampire can't die of starvation, though."

"So, if you were a vampire and somehow still cared about morals and stuff, you could probably exist without being a terrible... thing. Right."

He looks a bit tired of the whole thing.

"Right. Except those don't exist, so."

"Well yeah. But if. ... Stupid point, don't worry. Is there anything else?"