Vampire physiology question

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We all know the whole 'unneeded breath' thing is silly, right? We do, right?
Vampires may not need oxygen to live, but they do need to breathe in order to speak. Fine.

But does it make sense to anyone else (as it does to me) that their breath would feel rather on the cool side? They have no body heat of their own. They derive it from drinking blood. But does that warm them up so much their breath would be as warm as a human's?

Opinions, anyone?

Comments

[felisblanco.livejournal.com]

If they'd just drunken hot blood, straight from the source so to speak, then I suppose they might manage to heat up the air a bit but otherwise I'd think it, as well as themselves, should be room (surroundings) temperature. So even if a vampire's skin feels cold to the touch against a warm human's skin I'm not sure its breath would feel cold unless the air around it that it is using is cold, and then, would the person being breathed on feel any difference?

But then again you'd need a pumping heart to fill certain body parts with blood to make them function and that never seems to stop anyone having lots and lots of sex so I'm not sure logic features anywhere into vampire activity. ;)

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All this is true. I am now inclining to the opinion that vampires prefer a warm climate, if only because it makes it easier to pretend to be human.