"May we read every book in your library to get a good sense of the parameters of this new world? Longest-term I want a way home. Long-term I'm going to MIT - or wherever - to dispense engineering knowledge at some point. Medium-term I'm keeping you alive. I still don't want to give up my only nerve disruptor but I'm much less terrified by the prospect now. And short-term I'm recovering from the intense barrage of traumatic experiences that has been my life since I became a vampire."