[Aether is stunned by that question and it doesn't help that Thoma's fear is so painfully evident to the boy. He takes a deep breath, trying to think about it and to figure out this terrifying question - is Thoma going to die? Then it hits him that he can hear his friend's heartbeat and it's fast, but fairly normal. He's scared, but not dying.]

I... I don't think so.

[He tries to recall what happened to him in that narrow alleyway, when he was turned into a vampire.]

...I was dying when it happen. [He says, still not looking at Thoma.] I was desperate for help and then suddenly someone showed up. A guy... a vampire. [He pauses for a moment. Complicated emotions flow through him when he remembers all that.] He bit me and... I don't know, maybe I died there. I was cold, my vision went black. When I woke up, I still felt very cold and I could taste blood in my mouth...

[Did the vampire give him his blood? Or was it someone else's? Aether isn't sure what exactly had happened when he was out, but at the same time everything in him tells him that just biting someone will not turn them in a vampire or kill them.

He's not sure if this kind of uncertain info will be enough to reassure Thoma... Aether isn't even sure if he trusts himself either.]