No-! [She says, before shaking her head. That's not right] I mean- I wouldn't hurt you.
[She refuses to believe that even through all of this pain she would succumb. She'd rather bite herself. She very nearly does, if it might just keep her fangs in place. But from experience she knows that biting oneself gives absolutely no nutritional value. It doesn't help, but to keep her fangs in one place and not another.]
There's nothing you can do. [Nails bite so hard into her own skin it draws beads of blood, near unnoticed to her in the moment.] I'm a vampire. Do you know what that is?