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The Humans weren’t eager to part with their food to someone who wouldn’t be able to eat it. He didn’t want to eat it and waste the taste of something that, no doubt, tasted amazing, on someone who wouldn’t even be able to swallow it let alone enjoy it.But eventually one nice elderly woman managed to steal him half of a fillet on a wooden board, and Parnus went about his merry way to see what the rest of the Festival was about.
There was very little chance of anyone getting Parnus to sit in a boat to row all the way to the other side and back again--while he saw it fun for the others, there was nothing about it that he wound enjoy. But when some talked about lighting lamps on the lake surface, the Vampire couldn’t help but think of the first time he went to Lake Glass and stood at the bottom with his lack of breath. Perhaps that would be a beautiful sight to see from underneath the water surface, rather than on top of it.
Eventually Parnus found his way over to a rockier part of the shore, hoping to get away from the music for a moment. But it seemed he wasn’t the only one with such an idea in mind.
He recognized the young woman in passing--maybe they had done a trade or two. There were plenty of people who worked during the daytime that Parnus never got to see. He could smell the sunshine caught trapped inside the strands of her hair.
Parnus approached, his voice silent but his feet crunching on the rocks signaling that she was no longer alone; Vampires approaching women these days really didn’t bode well for anyone involved.
“Did you know that the whole beach once used to look like this?” Parnus asked her, and kicked a stone into the water, “the rocks, I mean. Not the sand. The sand came later. I can’t remember who told me that but... it just seemed true.”