[herps all the derps. he looks down at what's left of the bowl, returning to poking at it absently just for something to do that isn't looking into his brother's eyes.]
...I met Miss Astharoshe through the Vatican. She's a Methuselah-- it's what they call the descendants of the colonists from Mars, now... those who inherited the bacillus in their bloodstream. Because of the Earth's closer proximity to the sun, the effects of the nanomachines... they give their host side-effects, ones that resemble vampirism.
[he looks up a bit, before giving his brother a wan smile.]
Allergy to silver and inability to tolerate UV rays... the need to consume hemoglobin to fuel themselves... They are 'vampires' who don't even understand what they really are.
The rift from the war still exists, today. They've been living segregated from the 'terrans' for centuries... and it's only in the past hundred years there's been relative peace between us, but it's strained at best. Miss Astha was sent on a mission to capture a fugitive from the Empire, and I was assigned as an agent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assist her while she was in Rome.
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...I met Miss Astharoshe through the Vatican. She's a Methuselah-- it's what they call the descendants of the colonists from Mars, now... those who inherited the bacillus in their bloodstream. Because of the Earth's closer proximity to the sun, the effects of the nanomachines... they give their host side-effects, ones that resemble vampirism.
[he looks up a bit, before giving his brother a wan smile.]
Allergy to silver and inability to tolerate UV rays... the need to consume hemoglobin to fuel themselves... They are 'vampires' who don't even understand what they really are.
The rift from the war still exists, today. They've been living segregated from the 'terrans' for centuries... and it's only in the past hundred years there's been relative peace between us, but it's strained at best. Miss Astha was sent on a mission to capture a fugitive from the Empire, and I was assigned as an agent of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assist her while she was in Rome.