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A vampire Serg and a witch Yvette
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He smiles back.

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"Well, know a good place nearby where I can magically experiment on deadly diseases?"

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"...my castle, maybe?"

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"Uh." Blink. "I mean, maybe? It'd be nice and out of the way, and you wouldn't get sick, but that's very, uh. Living with just you in the middle of the woods."

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"Nobody around to give you funny looks!"

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"Well, no. I'll, um, I'll think about it? Thank you for the offer, anyway."

She looks like she is way too intimidated by him to live with him in the middle of the woods.

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He laughs.

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"It wouldn't be anytime soon, anyway. I still have a few more samples of diseases to collect, and I expect that once I quit my job I'll have trouble ever finding a replacement."

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"Hmm?"

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"I'm a young, unmarried woman. To many people I'm some mix of silly and incompetent and doing the wrong thing. To some degree the longer I stay unmarried, the more people wonder, 'well, what's wrong with you?' Or, if they're kinder than that, would refuse to hire me so that I can instead go focus on the one thing that's supposed to matter. For my own good, of course. Because of course I don't know what's good for me, do I?"

This seems to be a bit of a sore point for her.

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"Well, that's stupid."

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She barks a little laugh.

"Yes."

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"One of my favourite things about being a vampire is that I never have to deal with people having opinions at me if I don't feel like it!"

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"Must be nice," she says, a little wistfully. "I have to. And I have to care, too. If I let my reputation fall to pieces most of my credibility goes with it. After all, if I fail at a woman's basic duty, how can I be trusted with anything else?"

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"You sure you don't want to run away and live in a castle in the woods researching rare diseases?" he jokes.

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Avethana snorts and shakes her head.

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He giggles.

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"I don't even know your name," she points out.

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"Tasfal."

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She stands, and curtsies politely.

"Avethana. Though you probably knew that already."

His name's odd and foreign, but she supposes that makes sense. She has no idea how old he is, and it's not like he needed to stay where he was born and named once a vampire. He could just go anywhere. ... She feels a faint stab of jealousy, and ignores it.

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"I'd heard, yeah."

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Snort.

"How long have you been watching me, anyway?"

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"Oh, not all that long. A couple of weeks before we met."

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'Before we met,' he says, like they met at the market or at the park, and not in an alleyway with his teeth on her neck -

"Ah. Making sure you knew my schedule, or just. Waiting for the moment when no one would notice me gone? I assume it didn't take all that long to figure out I was a witch once you knew to look at me."

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"I wanted to be sure we wouldn't be interrupted."

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