"Eugh," Astarion commented, the curl of his lip revealing one of his fangs. He did look positively disgusted though as he thought the only thing the mind flayer corpses were good for was getting tossed into a fire. Apparently Thrawn and his people were of a different opinion though.

"Just so long as donations don't mean glass jars with cold, congealed blood in them. I don't like my blood so ripe that I'd need a fork to eat it."

Humanoid blood would still be preferable if he ever was to consume blood like that, but he did prefer it fresh. And preferably also warm.

Astarion tilted his head then, before holding the bottle of wine out to the other man in silent offering for him to also have a swig of it.

"A single bite is hardly enough to turn someone. You'd need to be drained entirely for that."