I'm jotting down ideas for a vampire story I'm going to write as soon as I'm done with my current WIP, and obviously blood loss is going to feature in the plot.
The idea is that the vampire feeds on people as they sleep, and the protagonist gets weaker over a period of several days without realizing what's going on until it's almost too late.
I want to get the symptoms for this kind of slow blood loss right, and have a general idea of:
*What the victim would experience.
*What the symptoms could be mistaken for.
*How much a person can lose before being severely disabled.
*And how long it takes to replenish the loss.
Thanks!
Oh, and the setting doesn't have modern medicine.
The idea is that the vampire feeds on people as they sleep, and the protagonist gets weaker over a period of several days without realizing what's going on until it's almost too late.
I want to get the symptoms for this kind of slow blood loss right, and have a general idea of:
*What the victim would experience.
*What the symptoms could be mistaken for.
*How much a person can lose before being severely disabled.
*And how long it takes to replenish the loss.
Thanks!
Oh, and the setting doesn't have modern medicine.