"A lord? That's...pretty grandiose. Why not head back then, if you had so much going for you?"

Josh pulls up a chair and sits down next to the vampire as if this is a perfectly ordinary conversation to be having. And let's face it, for him it really is. At least this time he's having it with someone else and not the voices in his head.

"Couldn't you, I dunno, ask for donors? I mean, i'm sure there's a market for human blood here in the Nexus, you can buy a nuclear powered toaster at one of the kiosk stands in the market. But so long as it's given willingly should be a problem. People donate blood all the damn time."