Backdated to the morning of June 6

[dredefulchilde]

What do you know about vampires?

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[dredefulchilde]

[Joss switches back to video. He looks as miserable and feverish as the last time Romeo saw him, but sadder. Older.]

It was. I’m very old, Romeo. Very, very old.

[myblueskies]

Old? What do you mean Joss? You're not old! You're littler than me! [He can't be very old at all!]

[dredefulchilde]

I was littler than you were once, but that was an extraordinarily long time ago.

[How to explain this?]

Shinki don’t age, right? We’re dead, so our bodies look the same age as we were when we died no matter how much time passes. Vampires are the same way.

A very long time ago, I was a normal human being. Then I died and became a vampire. I still look the same age as I did the day I died. That was nearly 700 years ago. I’m not a kid at all. I’m ancient.

[myblueskies]

[He knew that. Shinki never got bigger even if they lived in heaven for a long time! So Joss was like that, he had been a kid and he had died and then he was a vampire and then he died again and became a shinki?]

Seven hundred years? That's... A long long time. That must be as old as some of the old gods!

[dredefulchilde]

Older than some of them, even.

[He laughs a little, until it turns into a cough.]

Being a vampire explains a lot. Too bad, though. It’s rather disappointing not to be a ten year old super-genius. I’ve just had a lot of time to work at things.

[Suddenly he frowns.]

I’m not not a child, Romeo. I died seven centuries ago and became a vampire who killed hundreds of people over the years. Do you still want to be my friend, knowing that?

[myblueskies]

[Well it makes Romeo feel a little better... Maybe if he lived until he was seven hundred years old he would know lots of things too!

But it's true. Joss isn't a kid. Not like Romeo at all. Just like Ebisu isn't really a kid and Elfnein isn't really a kid.

As far as Romeo knows he is just a kid, unless he's forgotten too. He feels like just a kid though and Joss is a grown up. A really old grown up and one whose killed hundreds of people...

He already knows Joss is a good person. He's his friend even if he did really bad things before. He is good and kind, even if he's killed people. It's a big bad thing but Romeo believes he is good, really, under all of that.]

Of course I do! I know your not a kid but... I am friends with lots of grown ups here like miss Ginia and mister Iskander and mister Waver and... Do I got to call you mister Joss?

[Because that sounds weird.]