Chapter 13. Newborn. The same thing that happened to your hand, Jasper's answered in a quiet voice.

Repeated a thousand times. He laughed a little rooffully and brushed at his arm.

Our venom is the only thing that leaves a scar.

I'm Julia Argy. And I'm Vanessa Zoltan. And this is Haum-Bothered, Twilight and quarantine.

Vanessa, in honor of the chapter title, Newborns, I wanted to rigorously test your newborn of all kind knowledge.

So I'm going to give you some human baby newborn facts. And you are going to tell me whether or not they apply to vampire newborns as well.

See, I thought you were just going to give me a quiz about human newborns. And I volunteered at a NICU for two years. So I was like, I got it.

But it has a twist. Yeah. Julia, twisty and turny Argy.

Vanessa, getting an A on this quiz or else she'll fail the podcast Zoltan. That's me.

Babies can't taste saltiness. They only can do sweet, sour and bitter. Can vampires taste saltiness?

If they have gone to Julia Argy's sick burn school, then yes, they know what salty tastes like.

Extremely attuned to salty behavior, salty taste. Got it. Good. I accept an answer.

Okay. Human babies first poops don't smell. Do vampire babies poop and if so, doesn't smell?

Yeah, vampire babies poop. And I'm going to say the first one doesn't smell because like their colon was empty of human food because it's been three days of transformation before they can eat as a newborn.

And so there's probably nothing in their stomach when they have their first poop as a vampire.

I really appreciated how seriously you answered that question using logical reasoning. Great work. Did I get it right then?

Yeah. Hundred, two for two. Oh my god, I'm so good at this. Okay. Okay. Human babies cry with an accent reflecting the language they learned in utero and post utero.

Wait, wait, wait, we got to pause. That is a wild fact. I don't know what to tell you. French baby is going well, well, bonjour.

Yes, that is fact. Okay. So do you think vampire babies cry with an accent? No, I think all vampires sound like Catherine Hepburn. Any reason why or just a hunch?

I think all vampires are a little bit fancy and they all talk like this. So they have accents, but they're not crying in baby accents. They all have one accent. So I thought your question was like, do Seattle babies cry different than Galveston babies who cry different than Italian baby vampires.

I'm saying they all have the same voice. So yes, all vampire babies cry with an accent. It's just the same accent as all other vampire babies.

I respectfully decline and believe that they all cry with different accents, but I appreciate your take and I will reflect on it for days to come.

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