This is the second person now that is confused by 'ware. "When you put mechanical parts in your body to make it better. Or you can use biological parts, too, it's just more expensive. Do you really not have any 'ware?"

The magic part she can take at face value, but the more he says about vampires, the more she can't agree. "That's not how allergies work. You don't dissolve when you touch something that you're allergic to, you get a rash, or an anapgla- you collapse, or you can't breathe properly anymore, and wounds get kind of infected and won't heal properly.

And I don't know about clans. There are very few where I'm from, the people that get infected are usually found and exterminated quickly."