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[everlastingcovenant]

"Yes. Yes, of course it did." He pinches the bridge of his nose. "The ... the instinct—I'd never felt anything like it before. And the knowledge that I was ... dangerous. Terrified me."

And the angel said, "Fear not, fear not, be not afraid!"

[no_innocents]

"You are," he says, and there's a bit more weight to his words now, "you are dangerous. You are a predator. People... can be prey."

A pause.

"But you have to make sure you make it possible for that to be a choice."

[everlastingcovenant]

"A choice." He blinks. "Their choice, you mean?"

[no_innocents]

"First," he points out, "it has to be your choice. You must have the control to be able to decide when and if you will feed. Once you're there, then you can start offering options."

[everlastingcovenant]

John nods. "I—I think I see. Yes. We—one doesn't have to be defined by the hunger alone, right?"

[no_innocents]

"To let yourself be defined by hunger is to lose what makes you who you are, to die regardless of what your corpse does hunting about."

He pauses and looks to John.

"You don't wish to die. Not that way."

[everlastingcovenant]

"No. No, I certainly do not," John says. "I was ... before I changed, I was ... it was a sort of living death, to be honest. Dementia. Terrifying. The return to clarity alone was a shock, much less my—my youth. And I guess if—if I let hunger rule me, that'd be another kind of living death. Wouldn't it."

[no_innocents]

A slow, steady nod.

"One very hard to pull out of. What you lose is far more than you can ever regain."

[everlastingcovenant]

John exhales slowly.

"Yes. Yes, I can see that. I'll ... I'll keep that in mind. Thank you."