... First you get the agonized, inarticulate squeaky noise because... Ouch!
Then you get the actual thinking response, which is also "ouch" but with a healthy side of "How... interesting. Totally unique perspective."
The detail that you manage in 100 words is spectacular - rooting it in history, giving us philosophy, an image of the present, and then leaving us hanging wondering what Xander _thought_ when he woke up. Spectacular and cruel, and really neat because no one takes the perspective that vampires in this mythos are transient, or willing to let go. Move around, yes, want more, yes, but more without letting go of what they've got. I like the reversal.
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Then you get the actual thinking response, which is also "ouch" but with a healthy side of "How... interesting. Totally unique perspective."
The detail that you manage in 100 words is spectacular - rooting it in history, giving us philosophy, an image of the present, and then leaving us hanging wondering what Xander _thought_ when he woke up. Spectacular and cruel, and really neat because no one takes the perspective that vampires in this mythos are transient, or willing to let go. Move around, yes, want more, yes, but more without letting go of what they've got. I like the reversal.
And again... ouch!