But vampires do not exist!

I made another wry face. "I think, in explaining this to you, I destroyed your prejudices about vampires." I chuckled. "Being a vampire means, for some of course a sanguinary existence - to feed on blood to extend life. But this really is just a simple cell mutation. As you heard, you don't become a vampire by getting bit."

"But vampires do not exist!" she said as she painfully swallowed.

"What were you thinking then?"

"Something else. Something less."

"Humanity has a tendency to deny the existence of things it does not understand." I replied.

Her forehead wrinkled and her heart was pounding. After a brief hesitation, she continued with a sigh and her brow lit up. "So you're just, what? Mutants? Going out in the sunlight?"

"Well, yes. The sun only gives us headaches or skin spots. Our bodies have become hypersensitive and the sun is a simple attack."

"Do you sleep?"