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Ben watched as the vampires left one by one, taking their humans with them. He looked down at Hikari, at least the bleeding had stopped, he figured. The whole situation wasn't perfect, but it was a sight better than it could have been. Ben looked down at his hands, pulling his gloves a little tighter, "Sorry about that. I don't actually see you as my property," He pulled Hikari's chair out, "But you are my responsibility while you're here. I'm not sure what it is you've done, nor, if I'm honest, do I really care, but it does mean that we are stuck with one another," Ben smiled, " Might as well make the best of it?" He offered his hand for Hikari to take. He really didn't want to get into the conversation this was heading for.

He lead Hikari to his chambers. It wasn't as grand as Julius's room, nor was it as welcoming as his workshop, or at least he thought so. So many of the items in the room were completely useless to him. He rarely slept so there was little need for the bed. He had always thought he kept it out of some misplaced nostalgia for his human life where he needed sleep every night, but Ben was not one for introspection so the bed remained for some odd reason. "Please, make yourself at home," He said, not really knowing what else to say. He needed to feed, it had been too long since his last feed. But he had always felt awkward asking people if he could drink their blood. Few people reacted well to being asked if he could bite their neck open and drink their blood. It wasn't always the neck, but the neck was an easy place to get blood from. Ben rocked on his heels, "You're, uh, you're probably aware of the sustenance I require in order to survive," He looked up at Hikari, "It is not absolutely vital I feed right at this moment, but I will need to soon. If you don't feel ready to let me feed from you, just say and I can wait. But I will need to eventually, but I won't force you right now if you don't want to."