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[Finally, after all this time! Mulder has found that much-desired basketball. He's in luck too, as it's well-inflated, not a sign of wear or tear on it. Too many times, he's come across half-deflated or otherwise messed up ones. But this one is perfect. It's as if there's finally some compensation for all the usual rounds of disappearances and so on. He's really needed this. He starts dribbling the ball right as he leaves the shop and continues bouncing the thing everywhere he goes throughout the day. It can also be heard in the background of his voice transmission.]

Does anyone have any unique birthday traditions they care to share? I wonder how similar these traditions might be between the worlds... Let's just say I'm curious, for purely theoretical reasons.

...By the way, is there anyone out there who'd be up for shooting some hoops or even getting together a pick-up game of basketball? Of course, we'd actually need to throw together a hoop somehow first, but minor details! If you've never played before, I promise I'll go easy on you.

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I'm usually not human.

Only usually?

[Curiosity level rising. Even after months in Luceti there's something always so exciting about meeting a partial human.]

What are you the rest of the time?

Vampire.

[Maybe he should have seen it coming... And his reaction is even more interest, he's very conversational about this like it's all perfectly normal.]

And have you been a vampire for a long time?

Three centuries, give a decade or two.

An impressive span... and if it's not offensive for me to ask, I've always wondered, what's it like to be unaging?

It has it's ups and it's downs.

And I take it that it's the same for being a vampire in general? For all the bad I'm aware of, there have to be some good things to it, right?

In some rare cases; mine, for example. I have a soul. Not all vampires are as lucky.

[Curiosity pinged even more]

What sort of difference does having a soul make? Less cravings for blood or something?

No inclination towards evil, the ability to moralize and feel compassion. You normally don't have that when you're a vampire.

Does that make it hard, to exist as a vampire, having that soul?

Sometimes, but it's better than the alternative.

Considering what that alternative is... I don't blame you.

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