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Oh? What's that?

I don't smell. I might have figured out why!

...It's... kind of silly.

You don't small as in...you don't have a scent? Or you have no sense of smell?

But clearly important enough to you to make you wonder!

I don't smell like anything, apparently. I can smell.

I think so!

What conclusion have you come to?

There's a few things it could be. I've narrowed it down to more or less that I'm not real.

But that brings up more questions... it's very exciting!

Oh?

There's a couple things it could be, or a combination of them. But I'm not positive on either.

Want to know?

You seem to want to tell me.

What can I say? It's exciting!

One is that I'm not real. That's obvious.

The other is more interesting. That maybe I do smell, and it's just that you can't smell me.

I would tend to agree with the former option.

My sense of smell is very acute, you know.

Yeah yeah, vampires and their noses, I get all that. But I have a theory.

The living dead are all essentially magic creatures, right? Supernatural, magical things. When I was little, I had a protection spell granted to me. Still works every now and then.

Could be you just can't smell me because it won't let you. ~~Isn't that neat?!~~

...

Possibly.

Strange...

But it's likely that I'm just not real. If anything I'd smell like paper. But then I wonder what's running through my veins if not... you know. The B-word.

Sorry. It's very exciting for me. I suppose I should thank you.

You're welcome.

Yes, yes, that's all well and good but it’s still very perplexing for me. I get the feeling you would be interested in why, since it seems to support your point of view.

You know I'm interested. Tell me what's confusing you. Specifically.

I don't think my point of view is exactly what you think it is.

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Because you have no scent of blood, I have no desire to hurt you.

Does this point to some moral fibre on my part?

I don't think so. If you could smell me, you'd probably just think of me as just another dinner option. I doubt we'd get along half as well.

Moral fiber would be if you could smell me, and still didn't want to eat me. ~~I'm tempted to open a vein just to see what you'd do.~~

But...doesn't this prove it is my thirst for blood that causes me to commit atrocities rather than some defect in my soul?

~~Don't, you'll stain the carpet.~~

You do have a point there.

From that and what you've told me of before you died, you seemed... I don't know. Normal. Human. I think the vampirism is most of what makes you evil. Probably. That's assuming you haven't been lying to me this entire time.

I try to believe in people, but I've been wrong before.

*shrugs* I have told you before, I am not a teller of lies. Of course, I could have been lying then...but don't drive yourself mad with that sort of thinking.

Before I died, I was told I was a sinner. I feared hell. But now I look back and see the same person you see. Normal. Human. ~~Would be nice to have that back.~~

I wouldn’t hurt you. You or any of your friends. ~~I’m afraid you would kill me if I did.~~ Do you believe me?

Strange how nice being ordinary seems from the outside. I envy people, sometimes.

...I do. Not sure why, but I do. ~~I would have to. I wouldn't like it.~~