"Yes. I can." It had only recently started, the sound that is. Prior to that she only had her suspicion over the slight changes her body. Not that she was sick. Just tired.
Honesty was not always the best policy but in this circumstance she would try. Selene hated to be looked at like some sort of monster and dreaded seeing that expression on anyone's face. "Please call me Selene." Ma'am. Gah. That made her feel her age. "The truth is doctor, that I am a..." She gave pause, tucking her hair behind her ears, looking away for a moment as she let the word linger in her mouth. "...a vampire." And her husband was a freakishly strong mutant, with the ability to heal all wounds and six retractable metal blades that came from his hands. No, this wasn't odd at all.
"Though I am unlike the native vampires of this city." Which was evident in beat of her own heart, the breath she took and the fact that she could in fact conceive childrean.