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[ivory_gold]

There was a vampire who had found something close to happiness in his life. Perhaps not true happiness, but something close to it

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but of course =)

[ivory_gold]

Yes, I am. My name is Asher.

[ivory_gold]

I was here several years ago and it was my experience that the vampires of my world are unlike the others I saw here.

Good evening, Anna.

backdated, if that's okay 8( sob.

[nomad_priest]

A vampire? It was so odd for Abel, who had been part of a world where the term was derogatory, to hear one refer to themselves like that. The methuselah (always politically correct or else Caterina would have his neck) sounded rather ... melancholy, from his point of view.

"Is everything alright, sir?" He asked into his navigator.

[ivory_gold]

Asher read the narrative on the screen with no change in expression, but he again tipped his head to cover the scarred half of his face with his hair. It was a wholly unconscious motion, one Anita has worked to break him of, but he needed the comfort of knowing that passersby were stricken by his beauty and not the horror of the damage done to him centuries ago.

He had heard vampire used derogatorily of course, but it was what he was, nothing more or less. To call oneself a methuselah sounded so biblical and vampires were anything but biblical.

He considered his response to the question - of course everything was not alright, he had been plucked from his life and dropped back in this madhouse with nothing and no one from his home.

He chose truth of sorts when he typed back, "I will adjust."

[nomad_priest]

Abel was fascinated. It was so strange to see how the same races on different worlds seemed to interact with each other. Though they may not possess the virus that the Methuselah had, but they had the same instinct.

Asher, Abel thought to himself as he pondered a reply, was not alone. Though, he wouldn't call it a mad house. After all, he had managed to see Lilith once more, but the chaos that was left behind weighed heavy on him.

"I'm afraid that "I will adjust" isn't the attitude you should take on this, if you allow me to be so bold."

[ivory_gold]

Reading the reply, Asher's lip twitched up in a disdainful response to Abel's effrontery. His response was terse, appropriate to a proud master vampire nettled by what he saw as presumption.

"You may not."