[VOICE; LOCKED to "Pendragon"]

[primogen_vampirate]

[Someone hasn't eaten in a few days and is starting to get peckish. She's hesitant to go down this road, but so far this is the only prospect aside from Carter, who she respects a bit too much.

So her lazy drawl comes on over the communications network, appropriately in ancient Norse because...why not?]

I'm starting to think that you were all talk, darling.

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[hung_garian]

I'll admit the main reason they're still kicking is dodgy deals, friends in high places and pure dumb luck.

[primogen_vampirate]

Dodgy deals? What do you mean?

[hung_garian]

Oh, nothing that interesting. Bribery. Blackmail. Not-quite-friends in the shadier circles of society. Completely illegal, of course, he'd have been a shit lawyer.

[He's not that trusting, much as he likes her so far.]

[primogen_vampirate]

I do hope you don't mean the Fae.

[hung_garian]

Not as far as I know. Pretty sure their contacts are mostly human.

[primogen_vampirate]

Oh, dreadful creatures. Humans.

[hung_garian]

Some of them, yes.

[primogen_vampirate]

Some of them.

[hung_garian]

You a fan of mankind, then? As a species, I mean, not as a main course.

[primogen_vampirate]

I believe that mankind is...essential. Important. If sometimes a bit stupid.

[hung_garian]

Mm. Good. I'm fond of 'em personally, and the whole supervillain 'die human scum' attitude's kind of a dealbreaker for me, so I do like to check.

[primogen_vampirate]

It would be rather counterproductive for me to want to eliminate my only food source. Don't you think?

[hung_garian]

Only? Please, I'm worth three humans and a Big Mac, easily.

[primogen_vampirate]

Big Mac?

[Must be future slang. She waves it off as unimportant.]

If you want my honest opinion--and enjoy this rare dose of honesty--here it is: Change is at the heart of what human beings are. And they possess this where other creatures lack it. They are philosophers, explorers, and they have the power to create and destroy in the same breath. The understand themselves better than any of God's creatures. That is the exploration that awaits them—not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

[hung_garian]

Huh. Personally I just think it's neat they invented chocolate, but if you wanna get all Rousseau about it...

[primogen_vampirate]

[She laughs. Mina likes being seen as smart. That's why she uses unnecessarily big words all the time.]

I became a doctor because I like money. But my covenant of vampire believes in cultivating life. And I chose that because I believe in it too. And I can cultivate human life.

[A pause.]

And I've never had chocolate.

[hung_garian]

You can't have never had chocolate. I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

[primogen_vampirate]

Afraid it's true, darling. Where I grew up, it wasn't a reality of life.

[hung_garian]

Sweetheart, you haven't lived. Or unlived, or whatever it is vampires do.

[primogen_vampirate]

Is it really so special?

[hung_garian]

I think so. You could be one of those freaks who think it's not a big deal.

[primogen_vampirate]

A missed opportunity of my life, it seems. Hardly the first and it won't be the last.

[hung_garian]

Defeatist much, honey? It's not like you'll never get another chance to have any.

[primogen_vampirate]

Vampires must be very different in your world.

My kind can't eat.

[hung_garian]

Can't or don't? 'Cause so long as you've still got a digestive system, I don't see why you can't.