[Akiha is silent for a moment, clearly mulling over what to say, how to phrase things.]
Blood... Blood is a different thing when drank cold from a bag then when drank hot directly from someone. Cold blood has what's needed to numb the bloodlust, but hot blood makes it...
[Her eyes flutter shut as her words trail off just like a person who has just tasted ambrosia might. A few seconds later and she shakes herself, opening her eyes again.]
I have an emotional attachment to both of my willing donors and I've drank directly from them. I'm afraid of what I might do to them if I continue to drink their blood. [sip] If you could collect blood from other humans - full humans - here and I return to drinking the bagged blood, I won't... I won't have to worry about getting a different kind of addiction.
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Blood... Blood is a different thing when drank cold from a bag then when drank hot directly from someone. Cold blood has what's needed to numb the bloodlust, but hot blood makes it...
[Her eyes flutter shut as her words trail off just like a person who has just tasted ambrosia might. A few seconds later and she shakes herself, opening her eyes again.]
I have an emotional attachment to both of my willing donors and I've drank directly from them. I'm afraid of what I might do to them if I continue to drink their blood. [sip] If you could collect blood from other humans - full humans - here and I return to drinking the bagged blood, I won't... I won't have to worry about getting a different kind of addiction.
[A far more dangerous one...]