Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead

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    “That’s all you can do at a time like this?” Her voice sounded far away. “I show you healthy eternal youth, and you retreat into your vampiric shell.”
    Mercifully, she stopped talking until I was finished inventorying the seeds and could put them safely in a plastic sample bag.
    “So are you really the manifestation of a soul-sucking bureaucracy,” she asked, “or do you just have a garden variety case of obsessive compulsive disorder?”
    “Don’t play Buffy the Vampire Therapist with me,” I told her. “There are serious issues at stake here. You could have introduced an invasive species with that trick.”
    “And you could be one.”
    I sprang from the bench, or tried to. The blood spread into my bones and tissue, but I felt like the heaviness from my stomach went with it. I twisted back and forth on the bench, wondering if she’d multiplied me as easily as the seeds, scanning the fields for twins of myself before finally coming to my senses.
    “That’s ridiculous,” I told her. “I have the least impact of anyone who’s ever come here. I’m cold and dead and pure.”
    “I suppose that’s why I ended up talking to you,” she mused. “You’re the only one I feel safe with. Would this spread if I had sex with a live person, or just told a live person what I’ve told you? What if I can do more than make blood and seeds? What if I can give other people the ability to make blood and seeds?”
    My bones groaned at the thought. “Now that’s just cruel.”
    “I suppose you’re right,” she admitted. “I could divert you all night by making seeds, but you can’t get any sort of nourishment from them, can you?”
    “I think seeds are supposed to confound vampires because they’re symbolic of the early Christian church. Jesus was talking about spreading the smallest seeds of spiritual nourishment that would be the hardest to stamp out and grow into the biggest church. I think I want to count them just to keep track of the competition, the way one political party conducts polls to find out how much support the other one has, but all our political parties are fundamentally vampiric.”
    “Stefan’s Law doesn’t apply to liquids,” she said.
    I had no idea what Stefan’s Law had to do with the point I was trying to make. But I did know that if she didn’t have the sense to stay away from me, I could still wring her neck, right then and there. And might, as soon as I could figure out what the hell Stefan’s Law was.
    I reached to my pants pocket for my smart phone and couldn’t get my hand into my pocket, since my legs seemed to have swollen up, so I took my pants off. It wasn’t like I needed them for warmth anyway, and mosquitoes never bit me, either because of my undead skin or from professional courtesy.
    I did a search on the ‘net.
    “I’m such an enabler,” came her voice, but she sounded far away. “I hope I haven’t overdone it. I don’t know which is more incredible: that vampires exist, or that they could survive the advent of the ‘net. I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me, though. You’re not just socially acceptable, you’re a model citizen. You’re passive, compliant, a consumer, a blood recycler, and you give me a safe outlet for my creative powers. You make me feel like it’s a crime to duplicate my own cells, that it’s evil to exhale, that the only good Canadian is an undead Canadian.”
    Stefan’s Law was an equation stating that the intensity of radiation given off by an object is proportional to its surface area, its efficiency at taking in and letting out radiation, and especially its temperature, which was so important that they multiplied it by itself four times, just for emphasis. I couldn’t find any mention of it not working for non-solids, though. This was going to be a tough search. I tried to roll up my sleeves, found that they bunched more than I’d expected, and took off my shirt.
    In the meantime, the background voice droned on.
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