"Louis," Armand says, and then, "I had thought so."
Past tense, and it's the kind of past tense that isn't laced with the bitterness of having a thing taken away from him. More like a change in paradigm.
"Perhaps 'bearable' shouldn't be an aspiration for vampire companionship," has some low-grade humour to it. "Or perhaps it never was that to begin with, and it was the story I'd told myself and told him. You find the person you can tolerate and that's enough. You find the methods of that tolerance, and it's enough."
It always comes back to a person, doesn't it? Or so some vampires would have you believe. The quest for the eternal companion. But—
"I've always had a fondness for innovation," is less dicey territory. "Even in the advent of economic collapse, plague, warfare, there will always be that."
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Past tense, and it's the kind of past tense that isn't laced with the bitterness of having a thing taken away from him. More like a change in paradigm.
"Perhaps 'bearable' shouldn't be an aspiration for vampire companionship," has some low-grade humour to it. "Or perhaps it never was that to begin with, and it was the story I'd told myself and told him. You find the person you can tolerate and that's enough. You find the methods of that tolerance, and it's enough."
It always comes back to a person, doesn't it? Or so some vampires would have you believe. The quest for the eternal companion. But—
"I've always had a fondness for innovation," is less dicey territory. "Even in the advent of economic collapse, plague, warfare, there will always be that."