"Ouch," Cam said, sympathetic. "Sucks that that happened, but I'm glad the Voice was able to help you."
"So you ... get all your blood drained and replaced with fluid?" Cam's eyebrows shot up. It wasn't that they were super attached to having blood or anything -- in fact, they generally tried not to think about what was going on under their skin. But: "That sounds painful. And you have to ... what, come back to the Voice to get more fluid? Or you survive on blood?"
Definitely vampires. Not that Cameron had anything against vampires, mind, but they'd never exactly -- OK, that was a lie, they had definitely thought about becoming a vampire a couple times. But that had been before vampires were real, when it was a definite impossibility.
"Oh!" Cam was a bit startled when Nate pricked his finger, but they dutifully examined the drop of fluid, reaching out to touch it -- slowly, so that Nate could tell them to stop if they shouldn't. "That's ... pretty, actually."
As Nate commented on people's hate for the Ascended, though, Cam nodded solemnly. "I'm kind of used to being, uh, part of a group not everyone likes." Because they were nonbinary. "It sucks, but you can't let other people's hatred define who you are." They could have stayed in the closet, if they'd wanted to avoid that opprobrium, and they hadn't. Of course, they imagined being Ascended was different, but ... not that different.
"So you ... get all your blood drained and replaced with fluid?" Cam's eyebrows shot up. It wasn't that they were super attached to having blood or anything -- in fact, they generally tried not to think about what was going on under their skin. But: "That sounds painful. And you have to ... what, come back to the Voice to get more fluid? Or you survive on blood?"
Definitely vampires. Not that Cameron had anything against vampires, mind, but they'd never exactly -- OK, that was a lie, they had definitely thought about becoming a vampire a couple times. But that had been before vampires were real, when it was a definite impossibility.
"Oh!" Cam was a bit startled when Nate pricked his finger, but they dutifully examined the drop of fluid, reaching out to touch it -- slowly, so that Nate could tell them to stop if they shouldn't. "That's ... pretty, actually."
As Nate commented on people's hate for the Ascended, though, Cam nodded solemnly. "I'm kind of used to being, uh, part of a group not everyone likes." Because they were nonbinary. "It sucks, but you can't let other people's hatred define who you are." They could have stayed in the closet, if they'd wanted to avoid that opprobrium, and they hadn't. Of course, they imagined being Ascended was different, but ... not that different.
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"Cameras" by Ennev is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
