This wasn't something he typically did because many of his lovers were all too happy to talk about themselves or just drag Drake to bed and not talk a bunch. Either way the whole process of dating was a little odd and foreign to him. "Umm... " Asking what he wanted in a partner was off limits and Drake struggled to think of what they might have in common but suddenly his brain hooked onto something that interested him. "What were you working on when I first got here? With the book and the charts?" The man said he could ask the worst he could say was no.<br/><br/>He was mostly self taught when it came to magic with one of his lovers mentoring him through some of the early stages but he was a quick study and had eaten it up with delight even if it was hard to get ahold of texts and some took forever to pick apart with how advanced and quirky many it the people writing them were. Using his vampire energy to cast it and channel it but he knew there might be a limit to how much who could advance in comparison to strong angelic energy.