Page 17 of How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager
LordOfTheWin
How is it any different from drinking blood from a bag?
The bag is just dead flesh.
HotMouth
A dead PERSON.
Worse it would be a dead you.
LordOfTheWin
Aw how cute, you care.
HotMouth
Why wouldn’t I?
Wesley’s icon vanished from the app for a bit after that. It returned when Vincent was heading home twenty minutes later, along with a video of an extra hot chicken wings contest featuring a gaggle of celebrities and the messagenext time. Vincent huddled beneath his hood on the shady back of the bus, one eye always on the sun’s progress, and sent back an erotic vampire web-comic. Wes returned a set of swearing emojis, then went quiet for a noticeably long time for someone who’d admitted that he had no job and no scheduled commitments.
Vincent absentmindedly counted the cemeteries they passed as he waited for a response. The city tried to fashion all of them after the older ones San Salud had acquired in its early years as a sanatorium town, but Vincent had spent enough time in them to spot the differences between the truly aged graves and the ones made to look old for the sake of tourism.Most cemeteries in one citywas a hell of a slogan during the summer Ghost and Ghouls Festival and the last week of October, but the rest of the time it just seemed a bit depressing. When Vincent had been a kid, San Salud had also hit the charts for vampires, but the city must not have been thrilled about that particular connection because the last five years the vampiric population had taken a sharp decline.
A pair of large men eyed Vincent from three rows up, and he sank a bit more in his seat, trying to look bored instead of tired and scared. They had finally decided to ignore him when his phone buzzed.
LordOfTheWin
Is holy water actually Like That.
HotMouth
Deadly?
LordOfTheWin
I was going to say an aphrodisiac but sure.
HotMouth
Wait what?
Is that in the horny vampire comic I sent???
LordOfTheWin
It was a joke. You know jokes?
Yes fine it was in the comic shut up.
Still not a fetishist.
HotMouth
Still doubting that tbh. But the answer is no and no. Not deadly and not an aphrodisiac. Probably, anyway. I don’t think any vampires have actually tried it for that purpose.
Don’t quote me on this, but I think the original myth was born out of the intolerance of religious figures who were trying to keep vampires out of their congregations when vampirism was first on the rise in the middle ages?
But then the intolerance turned into straight up murdering and vampires went into hiding for so long that everyone returned to thinking we were myths and making up wild shit about us.
