[ A long pause comes then, during which Daniel does his best to try and quantify who indeed would do something like that, without making him sound like an asshole. Daniel has done a whole lot of thinking about Armand lately and by now he's pretty exhausted with being bitter about it; it's an expected stage in the cycle, it'll go back around to annoyance soon enough.

He laughs, sounding exasperated. ]

I don't think you'll believe me. You seem like a pretty practical guy, and my story is anything but that. [ But fuck it, he figures. ] You know anything about vampires?