Throughout history, more stories went unwritten than not. It wasn't as if he'd been born into a world where he ever expected he'd look at a book. Hell, the Gutenberg press had been around only a little more than a decade when he was born. Nothing wrong with preferring listening to reading. Sometimes he preferred it himself. "Or audiobooks. There's an app for that, you know. Can get them on your phone, listen to them when you're running or something." Did she run? He wasn't sure, but she seemed like the type.
"It's kinda difficult to want to make a meal out of humans when you used to be one." Yeah, it was a long time ago, but... Someone could be his... Great-great-great-great-great-great-grand-niece or something. What kind of... Monster would he be if he took the life of one of his own family because he was hungry.