“Are you a vampire like that?” I asked, staring at his mouth, trying to see his fiancé.

Leaving his food to lie in his chair, staring at her vaguely, contemplating its details with a vengeance, he did not bother to hide it from her, so she returned to the quilt, tightening it around her body.

Shocked by him when he met her question with laughter, as if she had uttered a funny joke,

He took his time, laughing, and when he finished, he answered her in a tone that made her feel inferior, "My dear, they sent you to earth, you know nothing, you do not know your nature or...