"Isn't there a friendly vampire in town?" Shen Qingqiu asks, picking up one of the fruit to study it more closely. "One of the, ahem, ladies and gentlemen of negotiable virtue." He turns ever so slightly pink, although he's working frantically to pretend he's not. "You should give them to him, if you don't think they'll drive him into a frenzy or something."

He puts it down again, turning back to smile at Jon. "It was a good idea, keeping these things consolidated and locked up. Now we just need to make sure they don't do you any harm, either."