He sighed and rubbed the knuckle of his index finger into his temple. “I suppose that’s better than you running around warning girls that I’m dangerous,” he replied.
Maybe he should have been worried about what kind of impression she was gleaning about vampires from him. Like most people in the Institute, she wasn’t a normal person, easily awestruck by his appearance and demeanor; people here gauged each other on other qualities, like strength and authority. Aidou still had those things, of course, but certainly not to the degree he was used to. Aristocracy was only a concept here, not something half so meaningful as it was in the real world.
She had no way of knowing his status, which made him worry that… ugh, she considered him a commonplace vampire was basing her assumptions on that. That all vampires were like him, and he like them. People here just didn’t know.
It would be a humiliation to end all humiliations to have to explain that he was special, that he was supposed to be setting an example for his fellows. But the discomfort didn’t come from threat of a bruised ego: no, more like from shame that he was not setting a good enough example for the nobility. Although Aigis herself said she didn’t mind, Aidou had essentially bit someone who’d given themselves over as a pity-gift. It wasn’t proper behavior at all. Even if it had been practical…
He wanted to tell her that not all nobles were so… were so… so--!
The vampire was still trying to think of an appropriate enough word when she spoke again. His eyebrows lowered. A favor? “Hmm?”
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Maybe he should have been worried about what kind of impression she was gleaning about vampires from him. Like most people in the Institute, she wasn’t a normal person, easily awestruck by his appearance and demeanor; people here gauged each other on other qualities, like strength and authority. Aidou still had those things, of course, but certainly not to the degree he was used to. Aristocracy was only a concept here, not something half so meaningful as it was in the real world.
She had no way of knowing his status, which made him worry that… ugh, she considered him a commonplace vampire was basing her assumptions on that. That all vampires were like him, and he like them. People here just didn’t know.
It would be a humiliation to end all humiliations to have to explain that he was special, that he was supposed to be setting an example for his fellows. But the discomfort didn’t come from threat of a bruised ego: no, more like from shame that he was not setting a good enough example for the nobility. Although Aigis herself said she didn’t mind, Aidou had essentially bit someone who’d given themselves over as a pity-gift. It wasn’t proper behavior at all. Even if it had been practical…
He wanted to tell her that not all nobles were so… were so… so--!
The vampire was still trying to think of an appropriate enough word when she spoke again. His eyebrows lowered. A favor? “Hmm?”