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"Why do you want to know so much?" The vampire asked, crossing his arms.

"Why can't I want to know more about a group of rogues in the same forest as me?" Alexander replied.

"I've already told you enough."

"You've barely told me anything. You haven't told me their numbers, their names, their age, just that they occasionally use the lake as a meeting place. That's one thing. If we're going to spend a month, possibly more with a bunch of criminal rogues, I need to know more about them."

The vampire didn't budge. "I'm part of that 'criminal' rogue group. Some of these rogues top the five hundred mark. You're asking me to betray them. Even if Aella over here,"-he threw a hand in my direction, and I gave him a sinister smile-"would like to …show more content…

Immortals weren't restricted to the vampire category, but were rarely something else. A few species of demons and faeries were also immortal, but that was it, unless you counted the gods.

"Happy now?" the vampire snapped.

He shrugged nonchalantly. "Not really. That also brings up another question. How old are you?"

"Nine-"

The vampire abruptly cut off. Nine? Nineteen? Ninety? Nine hundred?

"It's none of your business," he finished. "I'm here to get you out of the forest, not to provide you with information."

Alexander asked another question as if the vampire hadn't even spoken. "How do you get blood? I heard vampires can't sustain themselves on animal blood because and will lose their minds."

"Anyone would go crazy if you were deprived of food, yet couldn't die. Animal blood doesn't provide us with the suitable life force. We're not like vampiric pigs or something, a pigs blood won't work."

"You didn't even answer my question."

"I know."

The two stared at each other for a while. None of the others spoke either.

"How about a game? Each person asks two questions. You can choose to answer which one, but it it must be truthfully. Secondly, you cannot repeat questions you have already asked," Alexander casually suggested.

"Why would I want to know about you?"

"You probably don't. But being a rogue vampire, I dont think you leave this forest often. There are probably things about the world you want to know about."

The vampire looked the teeniest

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