Like any busy couple, Hellie and her husband Jean relish the chance for quality time.
Especially when Hellie’s feeling peckish.
But that doesn’t mean settling on the sofa with Netflix and a takeaway.
Instead, Hellie prepares to do a ‘deep feed’.
She asks Jean if he’s ready.
‘Please,’ he smiles, with a nod, and she moves closer.
Hellie identifies as a vampire but, unlike those in books and films, you won’t find her clamping her teeth into human skin.
‘People would say I’m an energy vampire,’ Hellie explains. ‘I prefer to use the term psychic vampirism. I don’t drink blood, that’s not my thing.’
Instead, she feeds off other people’s energy, because she feels tired, nauseous and dizzy in daylight.
During a ‘deep feeding’, she touches Jean’s face, asks him…