The lecture is unneeded and unwarranted both, Mr. Belmont, but I appreciate your thoroughness on the matter.
( he does not deign acknowledge the threats. there is little point to them but posturing, given that he has already given the man permission to kill him should it become necessary. )
Within the last few hundred years of my life, I woke to the fact that humans are not the lessers of vampires but our equals in all but age. I have acted in the past as I imagine you must see all vampires — cruelly and without regard. And I have come to know regret and sorrow for the harm I have caused. Prior to my arriving here, I had decided to give myself to the sun as recompense for those ills, but as you can see.
( he spreads his hands. the gesture looks very human on him, if not for the absence of other movement, blinking or breath that accompany it. )
Whatever divine creature guides our fates was not finished with me.
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( he does not deign acknowledge the threats. there is little point to them but posturing, given that he has already given the man permission to kill him should it become necessary. )
Within the last few hundred years of my life, I woke to the fact that humans are not the lessers of vampires but our equals in all but age. I have acted in the past as I imagine you must see all vampires — cruelly and without regard. And I have come to know regret and sorrow for the harm I have caused. Prior to my arriving here, I had decided to give myself to the sun as recompense for those ills, but as you can see.
( he spreads his hands. the gesture looks very human on him, if not for the absence of other movement, blinking or breath that accompany it. )
Whatever divine creature guides our fates was not finished with me.