Dhampir healing

For the past few minutes, the tepid, waist-deep water had been growing
warmer, and the mist licking its way up the stony walls had become denser.
He had been walking for thirty minutes now. The drop from the great hall
must have been around seventy feet. A vast subterranean aqueduct
brimming with water had awaited D. As the water only came up to his
chest, it didn’t matter much that he’d fallen feet first—what had saved D
from a brutal impact was his inhuman skill, and the indisputably
superhuman anatomy all dhampirs possessed.

Vampire anatomy—primarily their bones, muscles, and nerves—
allowed them to absorb impact and recover from damage hundreds of times
better than humans could. While it naturally varied from individual to
individual, dhampirs inherited at least fifty percent of those abilities. From a
height of seventy feet, a dhampir could probably hit solid ground and
survive. It would be nigh impossible to keep from breaking every bone in
their body and rupturing some internal organs, but even then some of the
faster dhampirs would be able to heal completely in about seventy-two
hours.

At any rate, D hadn’t been hurt in the least, and he stood chest-deep in
the black water surveying his surroundings. This was most likely a preexisting subterranean cavern that had been buttressed through later construction.

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