“I would have liked children someday,” I confessed. But it wasn’t in the cards for me; no vampire had ever successfully borne children. His expression fell. “I didn’t know. You hadn’t mentioned—” I tried to smile a little. “I know it can’t happen. And it’s nothing I’m actively thinking about. But I do wonder what it would be like to be a parent. To experience the world again alongside a little person who’s only just beginning to understand it. To learn with them all the things that make life worthwhile.”
