For the second time, Amun had opened himself up to the flurry of Quanil's mind. "Do the Ascended really drink blood? If you do, you don't have to drain someone dry, do you? Is drinking blood the only way to sustain yourself, or will regular food and drink do, too? Do you get dehydrated? Would you need blood or water or something to deal with that?
"If you don't drink blood, why do people say you do? I've heard all kinds of things, like that you have to kill people when you do it, or that it has to be babies - and I don't really believe the baby thing, because that just doesn't make any sense at all - or virgins or something. The virgins thing doesn't make sense either, but maybe they taste different? Do different people have different tastes or is all blood the same? Does it taste like chicken?!" That last question was a brand new on-the-spot one, so their eyes alit with the wonder of it. Fortunately, it also stopped the deluge - new questions coming in the middle or at the end of a bunch of old ones often had this effect, especially when they were talking to someone who might actually be able to answer with something other than rumor, opinion, or "I don't know."
"If you don't drink blood, why do people say you do? I've heard all kinds of things, like that you have to kill people when you do it, or that it has to be babies - and I don't really believe the baby thing, because that just doesn't make any sense at all - or virgins or something. The virgins thing doesn't make sense either, but maybe they taste different? Do different people have different tastes or is all blood the same? Does it taste like chicken?!" That last question was a brand new on-the-spot one, so their eyes alit with the wonder of it. Fortunately, it also stopped the deluge - new questions coming in the middle or at the end of a bunch of old ones often had this effect, especially when they were talking to someone who might actually be able to answer with something other than rumor, opinion, or "I don't know."
