It's more a necessity. Vampires drink blood and we keep tick-tocking along like normal. If we don't... well, it's not pretty.

[His nose wrinkled at the thought of having to eat raw meat of any kind. Biting into human flesh to get the blood was different than munching on the heart. Gross.]

I'm sure that was all the vitamins a growing... dragon baby needed.

[He still wasn't sure about her and what she was, being able to not be burned like that. Maybe it was a parlor trick.]

What about you? The whole immune to fire thing...