Helen: By what measure is a vampire? Here we have people (classified by the government as non-humans) who can drink blood but may only ever do it as a coming of age ritual, reproduce in the normal way, have an excellent cold tolerance, possess very little sense of taste and smell so garlic doesn’t bother […]
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