Dannika cringed lightly. "It's a human word. For anything that's unbelievable, although I'm pretty sure it's completely possible." Dannika had grown up the way most normal humans did. Because the supernatural were segregated away from humans, their culture didn't seep into the human education.
When he described the device that had made him sleep for two hundred years, she visibly paled. Dannika did not handle bodily fluids well, not even her own. If she bled, she fainted. If she vomited, she passed out. The idea of draining someone of their blood, just the idea of it, made her stomach flip flop. This was why she was a mechanical engineering major and not a pre-med student.
"Oh, no no! We definitely still have a need for musicians and singers. The computer can replicate the sounds, but it's not the same. I think music has probably changed quite a bit since you've been away." The length of songs was one of those changes. They didn't last more than five minutes these days, and even that was considered a lengthy one.
"No, I don't think we have the equipment for exploring the other planets. Mostly because it's so far away. Sending humans into space greatly deteriorates their bone mass. Ten percent for each month in space. It's sort of dangerous, actually. And no, the moon is no more inhabitable, mostly because there's no atmosphere, no gravity. A human couldn't breathe, they'd combust." She was actually pretty happy being on Earth, and had no desire to go into space whatsoever.
As Desmond described the way that vampires thought of themselves, her lip curled slightly. It was a little surprising to hear that vampires were selective of the humans they chose to turn. Apparently humans weren't the only snobs around.
She nodded. "Yeah, we hold them quite a bit here in the United States. But other countries get to hold them as well. You just missed the winter games. They held them in Vancouver this year. That's in Canada." She wasn't sure which countries and cities had been around when he'd gone to sleep, so she was really just trying to help him understand.
It was good to know what he was telling her about Dhampirs. Interesting, and something she could possibly use to save her life if it came to that again. She glanced toward the window at the rear of the hall and nodded. The sun was still up, and it would still be up for quite a few hours, but she'd talked to Desmond for several hours and it was now time to get to the gym.
She stood up and gave him a smile. "Sure. You can ask me whatever you want. I can't guarantee I'll know the answer, but I bet we could figure it out together. I think once you discover the internet, it's going to be hard to pry you away from the computer." She grinned and then headed for her room to change. Her damp hair had long ago dried and she twisted it as she stepped into her room and closed the door.