"Hmmpf what took you so long rakash!?" Meri snorted grabbing one of the bloodbags with her magic and summoning up a golden goblet to pour it into.
"Many stairs to climb and very little blood to be had." Snaggletooth grinned, not seeming to notice or care about her displeasure about him.
"Oh thank you.." Dusk said, as the goblin walked over holding the tray towards her and giving her a wink.
"Yes, yes lovely now begone." Meri spat, displeasure clear in her voice.
"As Meri wishes." Snaggletooth slowly turned around doing an exaggerated bow, taking the tray under his arm and giving a second bow as he walked out of the room closing the door behind him.
"Filthy creature" Meri snorted, filling up her goblet, looking down at the contents and taking a deep sniff of it.
"Atleast we got the blood." She continued taking a sip out of it.
"Isn't that a little mean? I mean he is just a servant right?" Dusk asked, a bit uneasy at her teachers disgust for the goblin.
"Yes and he will never be anything else, that and he is a goblin." Meri frowned, swishing around the blood in the goblet, catching any stray drops flying out with her magic collecting it into a small sphere of blood.
"What's wrong with goblins?" Dusk asked, as she looked at the blood bag in her hooves and wondering how she would drink it.
"Other than they are filthy and have undrinkable blood? I'd say because they are mischievous and cleptomanic!" Frowning again and taking another sip.
"Oh uhm that's bad .... say eh how do I drink this? just sink my fangs into the bag oor?" Dusk nodded slowly sensing her teacher getting riled up and annoyed, deciding to quickly change the subject before something bad happens.
"I know what you are trying to do." Meri said, looking Dusk in the eyes and summoning a second goblet like the one she had but silver.
"Use this, also... thanks, I get riled up by such foul beings."
"Thanks." Dusk smiled, taking the goblet in her hooves, biting a small hole with her fangs, pouring it clumsily in her goblet and giving a nervous smile at dusk as she shook her head and levitated all little droplets infront of Dusks mouth, who understood what she meant and opened her mouth letting the small blob of blood slosch around in her mouth with a content smile.
"Soo uhm does blood taste different depending on the eh source?" Dusk asked, after swallowing it and licking her lips.
"Why yes, how do you know?" Meri asked, a bit surprised at the question.
"Well this tastes differently than the other I had when I woke up." Raising the goblet towards Meri.
"Really? it should be the same since.... no he couldnt have?" Meri mumbled walking forward, taking a small sip and sighing.
"Equine blood, that worthless little cretin!"
"What? this is pony blood?" Dusk gasped, looking down at the red infront of her, almost dropping it if it weren't for Meri quickly grasping it in her magic, giving her a dissapointed look.
"Don't ever waste blood infront of a vampire of higher standing than you." Meri frowned, levitating the goblet and placing it on a nearby wooden barrel.
"And yes this is equine blood like I said, from the taste I would guess a stallion around the age of thirty....a pegasus if i'm not mistaken."
"That... is a bit disturbing, also a bit fascinating, well sorry I didn't mean to spill it and break some uhm rule."
"Well I am to blame here, I should've told you about these things, let me give you a few of the more important ones, *Ahem* the rules any vampires should know are these, number one: if you meet a vampire of higher standing than you, you do not drink infront of them unless they permit it, Number 2:do not hunt in another higher vampires territory, number 3:do not spill blood infront of another higher vampire and just so you know it is of good etiquette to present a vial of unicorn blood when having an audience with a clanlord." Meri said, smiling as she saw her student having a very concentrated look on her face.
"Oh and also don't ever make yourself known to the equestrian society as a vampire, any hunt you do and ends with death, hide the corpse or make it look like some animal attack."
"Hmm I would need to write this down, uhm do you have a pen and paper?" Dusk asked, looking around the room for something to write on, seeing only cobwebs, broken furnitures and dust, lots and lots of dust.
"No I do not, but let me call the rakash, I have some unsettled things with him anyway." Meri frowned, lighting up her horn causing a bell to sound and almost instantly the door opened and in stepped Snaggletooth with a big grin on his face.
"*Ahem* You called?" He bowed.