[[ I was NOT that bad! ]] Eliza muttered. 'Was I?' she thought.

[[Now . . . please try and stay calm for this. I was the one who had to explain all this. I had to explain to the family friends, to your instructors, to our society . . . ]]

[[ You were guarding your own . . . ]]

[[ I asked you to let me finish! Good grief, are you really that blind?!? Look around at the world you came from, Eliza! Things work a certain way here, and they've been working that way for thousands of years! Vampires and other Terrans evolved into their current...