[maybe it's a weird reaction, but it's just... it feels so. it feels like—not to fucking get poetic about it in her own head but it feels like she's crossed a threshold that she never knew was there, and on the other side of it is a pathway towards a deeper intimacy and a deeper love than she ever once thought possible.]

[and it is, on top of that, a decidedly monstrous thing to be doing, but she's not focusing on that part right now.]

We could. [she says it a little more weakly, now that the initial rush is over.] If you were really curious about it, too. But I'm not gonna go out and get myself as beat up as possible this month to try to get more from you while I can. [there's a smile on her face as she says it, one that all but says that she knew it was a worry on k's mind.]

Hey, maybe you can save it for those hot summer nights. Never know when you could use a nice shot of coldblood. And there was that girl on the network the other day asking how to make vileblood safe to drink. [the first sign that anna is starting to feel even a little better should be that she can make stupid little pop culture jokes.] Maybe we've got a little budding vampire den here in Trench.