she has no right to look as smug as she does. but she thinks she might actually be getting the hang of this whole vampire thing. she hasn’t had the urge to rip out anyone’s artery on first contact in at least a month and she’s ... learning to tolerate the taste. ( it’s a strange dichotomy ; she needs it to stay alive, she also hates it. it’s as though she’s had to form an opinion on breathing. ) all in all, she’s making progress. she’s even sitting in a diner, eating a burger like everything is entirely normal. she isn’t finding being at the school nearly as stressful as she thought she would, but she still needs distance from it. evidently, she looks a little too smug, because the universe puts just one more impossibility in her bath. in comes a girl, covered in ash, from head to toe. her response is pure instinct. “ what the fuck? ” @ofashes