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[feelings of panic and terror accompany this psychic message, as well a disjointed, haphazard livestream: first a large, flying, dragon-like creature, then flashes of cobbled paths and bone china flowers streaming past, as Richelle runs. There is, overall, the sense that this message is more of a reflex made in fear than something intentional]

It's going to eat me! It's going to eat me! It's going to eat me!

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They shouldn't be eating people with permission either! Who thinks like that?!

Some people are vampires and have to.

There are vampires here?!

Two and a half. But we've got rules about that and also we hand out blood bags.

[She gasps. The woman said we. Which means that what Richelle says next comes as a scream]

A vampire!

Yeah, okay. But I'm a friendly one. And like I said, I don't eat people without permission. I run strictly on donations and blood bags. The other two, they're the same way.

Vampires aren't friendly! Stay away from me!

Okay, maybe not in general. But the ones here are. We have rules and shit.

That doesn't mean anything! You're probably only pretending to be nice, so that people don't realise what you are. Well I'm not going to believe it!

[THAT IS ACTUALLY UNCOMFORTABLY CLOSE TO THE LONG CON THORNE HAS BEEN RUNNING ON THE TRAVELERS FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, GODDAMNIT.]

Okay, fine, don't believe me. Whatever. But every day you don't get eaten, know that it's because the vampires here have some goddamn manners and ethics.

[Richelle does have a talent for spotting things other people miss. But, luckily for Thorne...she's probably not going to be able to convince anyone else of this]

I'm not going to get eaten because I'm going to stay far away from you.

Oh my god, how old are you even? You sound like you're in high school. I don't eat people under the age of eighteen. You'd be safe anyway.

I am in high school.

Yeah, you totally sound like it. Jesus.

I. Am. Not. Gonna. Eat. You.

I am not gonna suck your blood. I am not going to do anything else to you that might constitute as eating. You're a kid and you can't give consent for that shit in a way that I feel comfortable with. You really don't have to worry. I know you're going to because you're really bad at listening to people, but you really fucking don't have to, okay?

Okay.

[Just like their other conversation, there's a mental squeak and then...nothing.

Thorne is a vampire, who might be able to brainwash people into thinking that being eaten is nice. Richelle is not going to talk to her anymore!]

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