Amanda continued to pay attention and take notes in class. She glanced at the clock. It was only 2:30PM?! Wow, time sure passes slowly when you're not having the most fun, haha, she thought to herself. Not that she disliked biochemistry. On the contrary, she liked it a lot. It explained what was going on in her body and all, although she was sure that the biochemistry class, which she was taking with both magical beings and humans, would not explain people like her.

I'm a witch, she reminded herself, and a vampire. And a human, too. Thanks to her witch and human lineage, Amanda didn't have to drink blood to survive as the pure vampires did. But thanks to her witch and vampire ancestry, she could count on living a much longer lifespan than the average human being. As she learned about the ways the human body made energy out of food -- glucose becoming two pyruvates and going through the tricarboxylic acid cycle and then the electron transport chain and the proton gradient and ATP synthase and whatnot -- she was glad that her cells also had other machinery to make energy, unique to vampires and witches, and wondered if those would be taught in future classes specific for magical beings.