It's a platitude, but platitudes get to be platitudes for a reason.
"It's quite 'ard for a vampire to be anything but a predator, but I've got to know quite a few of 'em on the Barge and really, they're just people. And the blood thing's not a choice - my neighbours Nadja and Laszlo can't even taste food without being sick."
She rubs her face.
"And we graduate 'em. Vlad more or less burned down a country but 'e graduated. That's what the Authority didn't like, you know - they thought we were taking on too many high risk cases. Not like this flipping padded, windowless risk-averse poop-hole!"
Her voice rises in a snarl of rage and Iris makes an unambiguously obscene hand gesture at the amorphous, omnipresent Nurse. Then she grins toothily at Garion.
"Being demoted were a relief. I don't 'ave to pretend to watch what I'm saying. Vlad's made a crack in it, now we just 'ave to keep the pressure up. You in?"
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It's a platitude, but platitudes get to be platitudes for a reason.
"It's quite 'ard for a vampire to be anything but a predator, but I've got to know quite a few of 'em on the Barge and really, they're just people. And the blood thing's not a choice - my neighbours Nadja and Laszlo can't even taste food without being sick."
She rubs her face.
"And we graduate 'em. Vlad more or less burned down a country but 'e graduated. That's what the Authority didn't like, you know - they thought we were taking on too many high risk cases. Not like this flipping padded, windowless risk-averse poop-hole!"
Her voice rises in a snarl of rage and Iris makes an unambiguously obscene hand gesture at the amorphous, omnipresent Nurse. Then she grins toothily at Garion.
"Being demoted were a relief. I don't 'ave to pretend to watch what I'm saying. Vlad's made a crack in it, now we just 'ave to keep the pressure up. You in?"