Page 33 of I Dated a Golden Vampire
Chapter Six
Pria looked at Riroin the living room.“Coffee?”
He laughed and shook his head.“No, thank you.Are you able to ignore that?”
“Sure.As long as it isn’t aimed at me or as long as she isn’t in total panic.Yup.”
He blinked.“You don’t socialize?”
“I was barely an adult when I ended up paralyzed.If anyone was fooling around with me, I didn’t feel it.”
“You mentioned that you had been attacked?”
“Yup.And he learned that he couldn’t breathe water.”She grinned.“So, that was fun.”
Riro said, “There was water nearby?”
“No, I pulled it from his body and shoved it into his lungs.”
Riro stared.“Really?”
“Really.My activation can do so much more than I ever thought, but it took me having to use it to get me around to develop it.”She grinned.“I even have gill buds.”
“What?”He was horrified.
“Why are you surprised?I have the buds like a lot of actives.They were found in one of the bajillion scans I had to go through after the accident.”
“Wait.No one had looked before?”
“Of course not.I can’t breathe water, but I can move it and move with it.That was what they were interested in.Hyreno politely explained that my skills did not make me eligible to live in their city.It was a very polite fuck-off notice.”
“They didn’t know about the gill buds?”He was concerned.
“The reports were sent to them, but by that point, I was a broken toy.”
“Are they visible?”
“In this suit?Yeah.”She lifted her arm and ran her fingers along her ribs.“The breast tissue conceals them pretty well, as do my arms.Who has gills here anyway?”
“Sharks.They are located for connections to your lungs.”He crouched and stroked the nearly invisible marks.“I think with a month of therapies, the buds could become functional gills.”
