He looked up my original name and confirmed my story. He looked up pictures and compared them to my current face. He saw my news stories. Then Hugh was very still for a while.
“This…this sounds so unbelievable.”
I nodded. “I know. I never thought I would have to tell anyone.”
“But you seem so…I mean, we laugh, we cry, we make love.”
“I actually have never cried. Not since…not since I was turned.”
“I could have sworn-”
“I faked it.”
“Did you fake everything?”
“No! I mean…I can orgasm and stuff, but I…I have no bodily fluids.”
“None?”
“None. I…” I hesitated, then went into my bedroom and dug under the bed for the book. I brought it back out, blowing dust off it, and handed it to him. “Here. It’s kind of a guidebook. I got this when I was first turned, and it’s helped me ever since.
