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She takes her friend's hand quickly. "I am sorry to hear that. We rescued you, could we not have rescued the others?"

"He most likely scattered us all... far enough so we could not help each other..."

Waitaminute. "Starve to death? That's possible?"

"If we run out of blood, completely, we start to dry and shrivel. After a while we fall into a deep torpor..."

She blinks. "Then let's be very sure you never have that happen ..."

"It takes a while, but eventually happens, if we dont have a source of... sustenance."

"The first sign of a new wrinkle," she half-jokes, "I'm grabbing the closest person to feed to you."

She shakes head. "I can go at least two weeks without feeding, without any problems."

"Even so. If it becomes a problem ..." Her voice gentles. "I do not like losing friends."

"neither do it." And Mina gets a quick, spontaneous hug.

A little surprised, nonetheless she responds by returning the hug. "What do you say to a glass, celebrating your return?"

"Of course... I have been experimenting with alchemical blood and spirts mixes..."

"Mmm, so did I without the alchemical bit ... shortly after learning I am Bound.

"Do they taste any better than simply mixing blood and vodka?"

"Much better. taste almost like human blood..." A small smile.

"Does it ..." She smiles. "May I sample?"

She calls a waitrat, and orders two mugs of her 'usual'...

"So, before the disaster, what had been going on in your life? I have been moping in my room and so out of the gossip net ..."

"I was simply studying, and practicing magic."

"Mmm, as quiet an existance as mine, but more productive no doubt ..."

"Under some points of view, yes..." A smile... the drinks arrive, Serena offers a steaming mug to Mina, it does indeed taste good, almost as good as real human blood, and has a quite good alcohol content...

She drinks deeply, her eyes closing as she conciously relaxes, a smile forming on her lips after a moment as the warmth flows into her. "Mmm ... very nice."

She opens her eyes with a smile to Serena. "How can moping be considered equal to study?"

"Some people equal study with waste of time." She nods, drinking, before it cools down.

"Such people have never been schoolteachers," she sniffs disdainfully as she finishes her mug.

Her eyes close again and she stretches slowly. "Mmmm, this is very good."

"I told you it was." Serena relaxes too... smiling a bit to herself...

She glances to Serena out of the corner of her eye and notes the smile. "A penny for your thoughts?"