"Is it still standing? I mean, you arrived here for a reason, yeah? I guess it has to be a pretty big disappointment all things considered."
When Toby was a kid, he used to be into alien stuff. The idea of life on other planets that surely had to be better than life on Earth. Now he wasn't so sure if anything was better. Maybe it all went back to the grass always looks different on the other side.
"Well, for me it helped that the vampire I let feed from me was beautiful and held my attention. She offered me protection when I was a human and basically bait for anything out there, and I offered her what she needed to survive. It was mutually beneficial, and when the vampire biting you isn't doing it to just kill you and toss you aside? It can be damn erotic."
He wasn't even lying to her. Outside of his name. There was no point. If she was from the prison then she was dealing with vampires there anyway. "It's like how sex is so intimate. The closest two people can be, right? Bloodletting is the same way. You're sharing a part of yourself with someone and you can't get any closer than that. Unless you combine it with sex, and then it's just amazing."