<strong>Sabien Theunissen</strong><br/><br/>The vampire chuckles softly, shaking her head as she slipped off her long skirt.  "What more would you like of me?  Perhaps I should bind my hands behind my back and blindfold myself?  You are already wounded and likely becoming weaker by the moment.  There is only a finite amount that I can do to mitigate your perceived threat from me.  As for my assistant, you will have to take my word that she is more a threat to herself than to you when it comes to such matters.  You are in little danger from her unless you are a slide needing preparation or a doctoral student defending your thesis."<br/><br/>She stretched slightly in the darkness once she was naked and took a deep breath, "as for putting you in a lab, I should point out that I currently live in such.  There are legends concerning those like yourself, which until I found your blood in the alley, I was more than willing to dismiss.  All the empirical evidence to date indicated that those like you were, simply put, impossible.  My curiosity is what traits you have inherited from your lineage and what ideas you may have as to how it might have occurred.  I would like for you to come by the laboratory, as it is rather difficult to run tests accurately in the field, not to mention how difficult it is to drag such out via a hybrid car.  I also have a rather extensive collection of pharmaceutical agents there that could cut back on the pain your experiencing."  She considered a moment and fished out another cigarette, lighting it and disposing the match.<br/><br/>"If you're still concerned, and you don't mind lingering in pain for a while longer, perhaps I could tell you a story...one that might shed some light on my somewhat...unusual views for one of my kind, and perhaps put you more at ease, hm?"