[with all the affection that leviathan astrape can muster, they shove nazuna's shoulder in hopes to ever-so-gently knock her off balance. maybe if they can pretend they're being, like, playfully aggressive, they can act like it's all okay. like it's just friends talking to each other.]

I've dealt with pheromone-using meta-humans before and they don't behave nearly as nicely as I do, Nazuna. [and when both of them have had the chance to meet each other's eyes again, they lower their glasses and peer at their vampiric companion over the top rim.]

I don't know whether I believe it really is your first time. I think that a lot of stories about vampires say that you're very good at that kind of thing. Isn't that right?