The Vampire's Apprentice

Clancy chuckled softly. "For as much as you read, sometimes you surprise me with how unimaginative you can be. I need not be a vampire. I can be a stuffy jerk with an old-fashioned view who also happens to work from home, avoid sunlight due to a skin condition, and hired you to handle the daylight aspect."
 
"But there's no fun in twisting the truth to make it sensible. That would be... un-fiction. It's a lie. A pointless lie that serves no purpose but to cause confusion." Kitty replied. "It's not unimaginative. It's unrealistically realistic."
 
"Technically, everything I saw is the truth," Clancy pointed out. "I do have a severe reaction to the sunlight, and I do have very old-fashioned views, do I not?"
 
"You're a vampire." She stated bluntly. "If I start listing even the twisted facts in successive order, it's going to quickly become clear what sort of a creature I'm talking about."
 
"Yes, and I know for a fact that Mrs. Turner has one client who believes his dead mother has reincarnated into a teapot, another who firmly believes aliens place implants in our brains, and one who thinks she is a horse born in the wrong body," Clancy replied blandly. "I have no doubt you will be perfectly safe, as will I, if she comes to the conclusion that you believe me to be a vampire."
 
Clancy shrugged. "As long as you go. Consider talking. Everyone needs someone who will listen to them, do they not? Just consider it, please. I have set it up for every evening for the next week at 7, then I will speak to Mrs. Turner to see if further sessions are needed at what rate. If you do not talk, that is up to you. I will not force you to."
 
"I don't see point in this." She grumbled. "I don't want to go at all, and I won't if I can help it. It's meaningless and there are better things I could be doing."
 
"Like reading one of your new books?" Clancy asked. "No, Miss Kitty, in this I am firm. You will go. You will be as polite as you can manage. You do not have to talk, but I would consider it a favor if you did. And that is all that I shall say on this subject. It is late, and that beast of yours will be waiting for you."
 
"If you would like to rent a car, I will leave some change on the table for you," Clancy said calmly. Mrs. Turner will inform me if you do not arrive incase of potential accidents." He glanced upward. "Hmm. The moon will be full soon."
 
She let the subject drop, having a difficult time arguing while maintaining some level of happiness. "Is that significant?"
 
"Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, The Hunger Games, Red Rising, two other books picked at random," Kitty answered, "and another book I found hiding on a back shelf."
 
"That first one is an excellent choice!" Clancy praised. "Though I cannot recall having heard of the other two. I hope they grant you much enjoyment."
 
"I enjoy NIHM a lot, though I'm surprised you haven't heard of the Hunger Games. It's a very well-known book about this girl living in a future world separated into 12 districts." She launched into an brief overview of the book. "Because people lost the war, the Hunger Games were created. One boy and one girl from each district are tossed into an arena each year to fight to the death and survive mutated nature's horrors. The last one standing is granted immunity from the Games and declared the winner. Katniss Everdeen is thrown into the Games, but she threatens the entire social structure of the world with what she does there."
 
Clancy listened soberly. "That sounds entirely illogical and like something that could never actually come to fruition... but perhaps I shall give it a try. What if I read that book, and you read Fahrenheit 451. Does that sound like a fair challange?"
 
"I've read that book before, and I would enjoy reading it again." Kitty nodded. "You can read these books whenever you like anyways."
 
Clancy glanced at her in surprise. "You have read it? Forgive me for the generalization, but it is not a book many people your age read by choice."
 
She snickered. "I've read a lot of things you probably wouldn't have expected. What'd you think, having a bunch of free time on my hands? I don't wander around the library just because I enjoy the silence."
 
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