[ This should work. Perhaps not the overconfidence, but the warmth of it. The affection. It's usually enough. It's part of the ritual, you hold the vampire and you kiss him and he just kind of melts for a while and everything else can wait. It isn't happening this time. ]
I'll come back. You know that.
[ Or- well. Maybe he doesn't. There's a pang of guilt at that. He did say that he was leaving, didn't he? And it had been Dracula who placed the thought that he ought to into his mind, but the words had been his own. He had been the one who acted on that thought. ]
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I'll come back. You know that.
[ Or- well. Maybe he doesn't. There's a pang of guilt at that. He did say that he was leaving, didn't he? And it had been Dracula who placed the thought that he ought to into his mind, but the words had been his own. He had been the one who acted on that thought. ]