Not exactly. A side effect of something I went through, during the last jaunt.

[Which is certainly a mild way of saying an elder god mentally tortured him before ripping his mind apart, but that's not something he likes to get into. He's still piecing some of his memories back together, and - like now - sometimes has difficulty remembering which memories are the real ones.]

Vampires don't exist in my world. But Thorne was my sister, in a jaunt. We've been close. And Melissa... well, we're acquainted, anyway. [He literally doesn't have the words to describe his relationship with Melissa.]