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[depointe]

We can only speak after sunset.

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[elcazadorcazado]

Are you rendered mute until then?

[misguided_optimist]

Odd, but doable. [Like she honestly had room to talk but there was no sense in telling him that.]

[depointe]

Is it so odd? {He smiles at her, yet his eyes remain cold.}

[depointe]

I must rest and avoid the light.

[misguided_optimist]

To some, but I find it more interesting. [She merely shrugs. He had eyes like someone else she had known.]

[depointe]

I wear my flesh, but my heart ceased to beat long ago. {He gets that a lot.}

[misguided_optimist]

Do you mean that physically or only metaphorically. [Now she was certainly curious.]

[depointe]

Physically. {Metaphorically too, but that's harder to explain.}

[misguided_optimist]

Fascinating. May I? [She held her hand out.]

[depointe]

{He hesitates before lightly touching her fingers. His hand is perfect, but the nails are sharp. More importantly, his skin is cool and there is no sensation of a pulse in his wrist.}

Satisfied?

[misguided_optimist]

[Predator was the first thing that came to mind when she saw his nails but it was the startling lack of life she felt under her fingers. He was telling the truth.]

I could ask many more questions to be honest but for the sake of not being a nuisance. What do you call your kind?

[depointe]

Vampires. {He speaks the word plainly - without excitement. It isn't something he relishes. He's too human for it.} I was once a mortal man.

[elcazadorcazado]

And if you get no rest?

[depointe]

I have no choice. There is not much else to do.

[elcazadorcazado]

You sound tired of it. Having nothing else to do. Having to wait for the sun to set.

[depointe]

You would feel the same after so many years. A coffin holds little entertainment for its occupant.

[elcazadorcazado]

Then why not stop? Why not end your boredom here and now? End everything?

[depointe]

That would involve dying a second time. I have no desire to experience that misery again.

[elcazadorcazado]

Not even if it was swift? A quick end to all of this?

[misguided_optimist]

I knew someone similar to you when I was smaller. [Hence why she doesn't startle at the revelation of what he is. She's not very thrilled with her own species currently.] I have never been Human. What was it like?