[0:00]Oh, it's all over, Hector.
[0:07]It's really not. Things just changed.
[0:13]That's all. Vampires aren't big on change. Someone should have told Camilla then. You still misunderstand her. Oh, come on. Even you were horrified by what she turned into. The scale of it maybe, and the chaos it would have introduced into our lives. I still say that at the root of it all, was the vampire's virtue. We want everything to remain the same, to remain stable. The vampire's virtue, bloody hell. There's an act of philosophical acrobatics for the ages. Oh, shush with your trying to be clever. You people spend 60 years bumping into things and call it a life. We have to take a longer view. So we want stability. And you're saying you had that. We did. As a quartet, my sisters and I had strength. The strength to enforce a stable environment. Strength can fight a war, yes, but it can also build a shelter. Are you following me? Just bumping into things along the way. Small shapes are stronger than big ones, Lenore. Camilla wanted more than a weather-proof shelter. In the end, but it all came from that virtue, do you see? Strength and power are different. You wanted strength. Camilla wanted power. In the end, yes. That's what it turned into. Which is what ruined my life.
[2:04]Power, big, international, non-diplomatic, projected power, is something else. It lends you more might, but it doesn't have the utilities of strength. It lays eggs in you, it becomes a parasite you have to feed. Power does nothing but eat.
[2:33]Like a vampire.
[2:37]Like a vampire.
[2:46]Therefore,
