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A vampire Serg and a witch Yvette
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She shivers. She's so glad she brought this blanket, that was such a great idea.

"So you picked an alleyway? Anyone - anyone could have walked through it and seen - us."

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"In a dead end between two abandoned buildings? Unlikely. And I would've heard them coming."

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"I suppose I-I would have liked being interrupted even less than. Than what happened."

She would have hated anyone seeing her like that. Kind of hates that he saw her like that, but, well. That had been his goal. And no one that could have just happened by would have been able to save her.

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"I imagine most people would."

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"You know, it's kind of funny. I don't know if it's good or bad, that I can't talk about it and that no one can really know. On one hand, I can just. Pretend it didn't happen, pretend it's all fine, go about my life as if it had been a dream. And on the other hand I have no one to talk to, there's an entire event in my life I just can't acknowledge in the light of day. Like I'm lying to all the world and myself besides."

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"Oh, I'd hate that," he says. "The lying thing."

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"It's awful," she agrees. "Like people are seeing me with pieces missing. Like I have to lie by omission in order for them to look at me the right way, because if I didn't, they - they wouldn't understand? They'd look at me with pity or horror or like I'm broken and I'm - I'm not."

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"Yeah."

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"It's very - something, that you're really the only person I can talk about this to," she points out, with a little laugh.

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Snort. "Well, I'm hardly about to judge you for it."

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"I'd be really annoyed with you if you did."

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"With very good reason!"

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She smiles at him, then tilts her head and looks at him strangely.

"... You're not what I expected you to be," she says, sounding a little surprised.

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"Oh?"

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"You're... reasonable? You haven't at any point gone, 'Oh, yeah, biting you was totally justified and morally sound.' You're surprisingly pleasant to talk to?"

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"Very few of the things I've done in my life have been justified or morally sound."

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"I'm surprised that you'd admit it! I don't disagree, just. Usually people think they have a right to do terrible things or they're justified in doing them in some way."

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"When I was younger I used to think it was - not just morally sound, but morally necessary - and then I noticed that that's not how most people define justice, and I have more fun if I do what I want instead of what I feel like I should, and now I'm a much nicer person."

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"Huh. That's interesting." She looks at him thoughtfully, like a woman that's had an unsolved puzzle placed in front of her and she's being irresistibly drawn to attempt to solve it.

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"Hmm?"

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"I'm wondering if there's a way for what you want to be shaped like something that isn't objectively awful."

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"What do you mean?"

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"Like - uh, consensually biting people without killing them for food, and sourcing your kills for power elsewhere. Or just stopping, but I'm guessing you don't want to do that?"

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"...what do you mean, 'elsewhere'? Elsewhere from what? I can't kill someone for power without also eating them and I have no idea why you'd want me to if I could."

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"Like, uh - what was my list earlier - mercy kills for people that want them, vampire vigilantism, maybe setting up to do executions for a government but that sounds like more work and more people than you'd ever want to put up with? Instead of just randomly killing innocent people that don't want to die."

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