[EP] Learning about Humanity - OTA

[st_paladin]

Adrian had found a lot of the 'guests' at the Inn were quite pleasant and he wondered if that was how his father had found them in the beginning. When they had no idea he was a vampire, just a wanderer among them. It fueled his curiosity and he wanted to learn more about humanity. The only examples he ever had was his mother and the other villagers, besides what he had encountered here.

The best way to learn, was to observe. He didn't want to draw attention to himself, so he settled onto a small table in the restaurant area with his ever present notebook beside him. It was what he used to take notes, trying to decipher turns of phrases and words that were foreign to him. Up until this point he'd used a pencil, but on the way down he'd realized that he didn't have it with him. Instead, someone had offered him a writing utensil, they called it a pen but it looked nothing like a goose feather and he couldn't understand how it wrote without an inkwell.

As he pressed the end to the piece of paper there was nothing. Adrian's thumb accidentally moved across the end of the pen and he heard a click sound. Suddenly a point appeared at the bottom where there had been nothing. "Odd." Curiously, he moved the end over the paper and gasped when a mark appeared. Was the ink hidden?

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[st_affofthemoon]

"Mostly?" Zahra looked at him with slight amusement in her pupiless eyes. "I say fuck them and do what I want... but I suppose that doing things like saving people and generally working against my stereotype also helps them learn not every Tiefling is evil."

[st_paladin]

That intrigued Adrian and he asked her quietly, "and if a vampire did the same? Would you give them the same consideration of working against their type?" Technically, he was a dhampir but almost everyone viewed him as a vampire.

[st_affofthemoon]

"As long as they're not hurting innocent people, I'm fine with Vampires, Orcs, or even Goblins doing their own thing." Zahra was more about the person than the race. She was thankful that Kash was too. "Why do you ask?"

[st_paladin]

Alucard had to begin to trust. If the trust was misplaced, then it was knowledge that he would need. He brushed his hair aside so that she would have a better view of his face, "because my father was a vampire."

He smiled, this time it was wide enough that she would be able to clearly see his fangs. "My mother was a human, but my father was a vampire."

[st_affofthemoon]

Her eyebrows lifted a little. "I've never heard of a vampire and human mating." Said in a tone that was mostly fascinated. "Are you a vampire yourself then, or just have the aesthetics?"

[st_paladin]

"Just the aesthetics." He began and then paused, before adding. "I do not need blood to survive as most vampires do, but if I am severely injured that a healing sleep will not cure, I need blood."

Adrian clarified, "I do not drink the blood from a live victim. I use blood donated freely or through animals. I never kill." He had only needed it once after his father had attacked him when Adrian had tried to stop him from destroying a village after his mother's murder.

[st_affofthemoon]

"Sounds to me you're nothing like the majority of others like you." Zahra smiled. "We're a bit alike, that way." And for that Zahra liked him immediately. "Should anyone give you a hard time here, I'd like to have a word with them."

[st_paladin]

Adrian smiled widely, letting his fangs show easily. "I will gladly do the same if anyone gives you a hard time. Though I suspect I might have to stand in line."

[st_affofthemoon]

She laughed. "Noticed my rather attractive shadow around, have you?" Zahra said this with such strong affection. She really did appreciate Kash's adoration and he was getting better with her being away from him in the inn the longer she remained here.

[st_paladin]

"I have noticed, though that was not the reason for my comment." The skin around Adrian's eyes crinkled with his humor. "I think you have a lot of friends and they would wish to aide you in your battles."

He didn't say come to your aide, because Adrian was sure that she could hold her own.

[st_affofthemoon]

"Oh. Yes. As strange as it still is to say, I suppose I do." Zahra smiled back. "I'm sure they would enjoy meeting you as well. We come from a world that does not have this much science or technology. I've been told our world is much like the distant past."

[st_paladin]

"I think this is why I gravitate toward people like us. Those that are more of a fish out of water than others that have arrived here." Adrian talked with others and enjoyed the people in the Inn, but he felt more connected to others that didn't quite fit in.

[st_affofthemoon]

"Hm." She nodded in affirmation. "Much like a roving band of misfits. It's why I'm friends with Vox Machina. You'll notice them around. Two half-elves and a gnome and a human that's far too pale for his own good."

[st_paladin]

"A half elf and a gnome?" Adrian asked her curiously. "I do not believe we have those in my world. What are they like?"

[st_affofthemoon]

"A gnome is a rather short person. You might think they're a child, but they're not." Well, Pike wasn't. Sometimes Scanlan acted like one. "And a half elf is half human and half elf - another race. One who usually has their own opinion on every other race. They have pointed ears."

[st_paladin]

"Ah, I have seen two with ears such as that." Adrian thought a moment, "and I believe there was a woman that perhaps was a gnome. She was handing out --" he thought for the word, "desserts."

[st_affofthemoon]

"Her name is Pike." Zahra's expression was fond. "She's good company, if you're ever feeling lonely. Able to brighten a room even in a storm, that one." And she had many times in Whitestone while Thordak was threatening everyone's lives.

[st_paladin]

"She sounds special." Adrian said with a smile toward his new friend. "That is a gift."


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[st_affofthemoon]

(ooc: Sounds good to me! :D <3 )