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Aaron listened with interest as Lilith said her piece, a bit melancholy at the mention of Lucan but otherwise happy to hear someone speak with a bit more normalcy. [color=f0d705]“Mine just presents as a bog-standard secondary,”[/color] he replied jovially, holding up his left hand to show his ring. [color=f0d705]“I’ve been lucky, though. I’ve never had any trouble getting my magic to cooperate. I used to push myself a little too hard, but that’s another issue altogether.”[/color] He grinned as memories of minor magic burns shortly after his awakening resurfaced, not to mention the excitable talkings-to he’d get from Sariel afterwards. 

He turned his head when Alex jutted in, and just like that, the conversation took off again. Before Aaron knew it they were on the subject of blood selling and show business, both confusing him and reminding him that Varis’ blood tasting with the other nobles was coming up faster than he’d prefer. He cautiously accepted the glass shoved in his direction, pleasantly surprised at the flavour as he considered his answer. 

He wasn’t sure how realistic Hilda’s aspirations were, but he cautioned himself against rushing to his immediate judgement that she had her head in the clouds. She sounded like she wanted to be some kind of breadwinner, which of course on the face of it seemed ludicrous, but it occurred to him that he really had no idea what sorts of vampire-mage dynamics were common among… well, among commoners. Not every vampire was an aristocrat, he reminded himself. And she did have a point; he’d heard down the grapevine that mages were entering certain professions considerably more in recent years. Show business, as luck would have it, was one such industry. Aaron himself saw mages in shows and movies surprisingly frequently, a change he always attributed to the convenience of using actors capable of real magic rather than having to spend the money to add the effects in after the fact. The way Eris talked about mage actors made them sound more like exotic pets brought in to entertain co-workers than colleagues in their own right, but there was no denying their increasing prevalence. 

[color=f0d705]“The industry [i]is[/i] opening up,”[/color] he replied noncommittally, offering Hilda an innocent shrug. [color=f0d705]“Besides, you do see a lot of Primaries in movies. They can be very flashy if done well, and I think they appeal well to vampire and human audiences who don’t have a great understanding of the workings of more complicated affinities.”[/color]
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