[He's not particularly concerned that the other man seems surprised. He's confident that this is a compelling offer, and he's going to push it while the moment is right.]

It's different.

When I said that, I thought differently of you. What you were telling me-- [he sighs] I thought that you were another young immortal, receptive to influence and that... I'd be to you, what others were to me, once. The people who ended my innocence. I thought that I'd break you.

[He levels a look at Larus, tipping the vampire's head slightly, his fingers pressing into the flesh of his neck.]

But you killed tonight, didn't you? You've killed many times before tonight, too. And the way you fucked me, and latched onto my arm in that storeroom...

[Dorian smiles, the expression pulling in the intensity of unusually bright, and beautiful blue eyes.]

I think we'd be good for each other.