It's about recognition. Have there never been any Earthers that recognised essential rights - the rights that everyone is born with, and that it should always be a crime to offend against?
[She's perceptive enough to catch that stray we, although she's not ascribing too much immediate significance to it, just mentally filing it away. It may be nothing.]
The way you put it, it sounds as if vampires could maintain perfectly fair contractual agreements with humans if they chose. A small amount of blood in return for a fair payment.
[But he really doesn't think much of women, does he? She watches as he refills her wine glass, the flow of that dark red liquid. Then she picks it up, takes another long sip.]
In my experience, men enjoy ecstasy just as much as women. [Take that as you will, Arthur.] I don't know why anyone would be bitten the first time, but then people behave strangely sometimes. [Klaus likes to be bitten. It's not the same, but it's still inexplicable to her. Animalistic. If Arilanna Tayrey made a deal with a vampire, she'd be handing then a little vial of decanted blood.]
Earther marriage is practically designed for abuse. [Not holding back on the controversial opinions! She doesn't think anything she says can be worse than Arthur's mandates, so she's not going to be shy.] Like I said, we don't do lifetime contracts out my way. But even then, this man was a slave, so his abuser wasn't like a husband.
I thought that even on Earth, fairy tales were fictional stories for small children. I'm more convinced by the theory that their authors might have spent time in bubble universes like this one.
no subject
[She's perceptive enough to catch that stray we, although she's not ascribing too much immediate significance to it, just mentally filing it away. It may be nothing.]
The way you put it, it sounds as if vampires could maintain perfectly fair contractual agreements with humans if they chose. A small amount of blood in return for a fair payment.
[But he really doesn't think much of women, does he? She watches as he refills her wine glass, the flow of that dark red liquid. Then she picks it up, takes another long sip.]
In my experience, men enjoy ecstasy just as much as women. [Take that as you will, Arthur.] I don't know why anyone would be bitten the first time, but then people behave strangely sometimes. [Klaus likes to be bitten. It's not the same, but it's still inexplicable to her. Animalistic. If Arilanna Tayrey made a deal with a vampire, she'd be handing then a little vial of decanted blood.]
Earther marriage is practically designed for abuse. [Not holding back on the controversial opinions! She doesn't think anything she says can be worse than Arthur's mandates, so she's not going to be shy.] Like I said, we don't do lifetime contracts out my way. But even then, this man was a slave, so his abuser wasn't like a husband.
I thought that even on Earth, fairy tales were fictional stories for small children. I'm more convinced by the theory that their authors might have spent time in bubble universes like this one.