he had witnessed first-hand the visions and proselytizations of the supreme mother , he had not sensed any corporeal suffering from torture , he had been set free from his entrapment by a raging fire that spewed from somewhere within him , he had physically drained the blood via his own fangs of jimi the hitman hope , and to top it off , he had been shot four times in the back while fleeing from the whitehouse with no apparent ill effect , but accepting that he was , indeed , an actual vampire , was still proving difficult to mentally grasp .