[Even if Liem can’t help but feel like Matt shouldn’t have to touch corpses too, he doesn’t refuse the help when it’s offered. Matt already expressed his intention to delve deeper, after all; it seems senseless to object to him dealing with the dead when he already helped Liem destroy them.]

It’s fine.

[Matt’s surprise comes as no real shock, even if he doesn’t recall ever discussing this with Matt in Horos. It isn’t as though half-vampire was a normal thing to be in Taldor, either.]

It’s why I’m familiar with vampires, [he says slowly, not entirely sure if that is what Matt was trying to say. Liem straightens from the last of the corpses, looking down the hall towards him.] I wanted to help you because when I arrived in Horos, when I was naked and alone, you were kind to me.