Queen
He smiled like a patient parent “Blood sustains us. Allows us to walk in the sun – the vitamin D, you know”
“I see. It's all about the D?”
Sebastien barked a short laugh, shook his head and took a sip of his chai. “Oh” he looked surprised “Well, this is quite delicious. Very warming”
I sat next to him at the bar and swivelled on the stool to face him.
“So, you’re a vampire, there’s some king and an ongoing war? Oh, and people are dropping dead left right and centre?”
He gave me a side-eye. “That would be the Cliff Notes version.” He said drily. “There’s no king – Rasmus was believed dead when his father died. He didn’t turn up for another ten years. By then his cousin had taken the throne.”