I know that too :-). I could taste that on you. I could taste the other things in you too.
I read a napikwan book once that called what I am 'Vampyr.' But the details were a little wrong, like someone told someone the story of a Vampyr, and then they told five other people and then they told more people, and along the way the story changed. Or maybe the others like me aren't exactly like me.
[ what he did taste, briefly, with his tongue and nose both: white-man father, grief in waves, and blood in slow drips like a lamb left to bleed out.]
Yes it does. No I can't. Though if I could I would probably lie about it.
My nose tells me things. My tongue tells me more. I saw your mother, and your father. I could taste spider on you. I have never tasted spider on anyone, before. I could taste you before I could see you :-).
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