"I think I'm more willing to trust my own reading of arbitrary Milliways patrons from gods know where than you are, but yeah, I take your point. I mean, since it has been established that I can successfully create dragons..."

He stops. He pauses noticeably.

Then he says, "I was going to say that we can wait around and see if there's anyone we want to try out for a long apprenticeship as our junior sorcerer and then once we know them well enough we vampire them, wait until they find a mate, and dragon the mate and see if that works since at least one magical love thing will already have cleared the connection, but actually there's a much shorter route to a similar setup."