Pure vampire
"I'll do this once and only once… I'll throw you a bone, isn't that what it's called? Do you a solid? A favor? And give you one goal this evening, one thing to set your small misinformed mind toward."
I waited in anticipation.
"Survive," he said softly. "Just survive. And when the flames threaten to take you higher and higher, give in. When the heat scorches you from the inside out, when tears no longer come, when the need is all you can contemplate… you survive."
He stood and shrugged, as if he hadn't just scared the crap out of me.
"Oh, and also? It would probably be good to call for your mate…" He offered a haphazard shrug. "When it's time."