...It never would have occurred to me that vampires could have food allergies. (Please, Sebastian, that's natural; no need to moralize a biological function as civil or uncivil.)

I do see. I suppose there's only so far my, er, living existence maps to your unliving one.

(I'm pretty sure said walking corpse's Implant would be losing its little electronic mind. That said, who knows what's going on outside of Gov?)

While I can't say I really understand the particulars, I can see the shape of the thing. Talk about a rock and a hard place. [Devero knows about those.]

So your kind have...magic? [He's a sci-fi boy, that's way outside his realm of experience.]

Influenza. A pandemic one. Billions of people died.

Thanks. It's validating that someone from somewhere so different to my world can still get it.