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This world has such a stench to it... it's a wonder any of you can breathe.

In the interest of making this place more tolerable, where would one be able to acquire roses? I wish to start a garden.

Or are we incapable of having even that meager luxury?

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Little more than pretense, it seems to me.

Then he was unkillable? *She can't help but chuckle a bit* How deliciously ironic.

[consultmybooks]

Unkillable, yes. Buffy kept staking him until he gave up, but he did eventually give up.

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Then a beast putting on a pretense at nobility and weak of will.

What a masterful combination. I find it hard to believe your kind is frightened of him.

[consultmybooks]

Did I not mention the part where he was unkillable?

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Unkillable. Not undefeatable, as you have so kindly illustrated yourself.

[consultmybooks]

True.

And he was a decent enough sport about it. We haven't seen him since.

[redstringed]

How interesting. If he did, in fact, have such power, then it seems silly to not use it.

[consultmybooks]

Oh, he does. But we quickly had bigger problems than a vampire who actually had a great deal of self restraint.

In the end, his arrangement with us wound up being quite similar to his deal with the gypsies. We left one another alone.

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"Live and let live," then. How toothless of him.

Have you any idea what he had done to become so invulnerable?

[consultmybooks]

Gypsy magic combined with his own nature as a vampire. The Master had a similar trick - he left his bones behind when he died, and those could be used to resurrect him - but it was nothing like as powerful.

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Hmph. Magic, magic, magic - is that all your vampires use?

Was this Master a glorified parlor magician, then?

[consultmybooks]

No. Dracula was unique in that regard. Well, him and a...few others.

The Master was no magician, however. He was religious fanatic, and that was worse.

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A religious fanatic vampire? How ludicrous. What on earth would their kind possibly worship beyond the hunt?

[consultmybooks]

True Demons. The progenitors of vampires. The worst monsters ever to exist and who, they believed, would eventually bring about humanity's downfall.

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Ah, a grim Messiah - or group thereof.

Though you said that your vampires were, in fact, demons of their own kind.

[consultmybooks]

Yes. Abominations even to other abominations.

I suppose they hope that worshiping the True Demons will give them some sort of amnesty.

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And I suppose it had not occurred to them that a truly Evil being would be unlikely to feel gratitude of any sort, much less show mercy?

The more I come to learn about your vampires, the less pleased I am to be identified with their kind.

[consultmybooks]

I can imagine that it wouldn't be at all pleasant for you, no.

The vampires from our world don't appreciate tea at all. Some of them don't even appreciate blood.

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I cannot imagine anyone would, foul though it is.

You said they needed to ingest blood to survive.