"Well, think of it this way." The vampire said to Julian. "I could, if I decide to do so, bite quickly into your neck, piercing both one of, if not the largest artery in your body, and your windpipe, crushing it easily. You'd pass out within seconds and die in about the same time span, I could suck you dry in only ten. A quick death, and I get to feed. The best of both worlds. Some monsters in this realm are sadistic. They will make you suffer because you are, in their eyes, lower than food. Have you ever seen a kid torture an ant? Truly terrifying if you think of it. They chase it around, some with a stick or something, scare the living hell out of the poor creature, and then they grasp it by the head, where the pincers can't get at their fingers." He mimics the act a child would do, and they find momentarily the room illuminated, as the creature seems to glow as it describes and acts out the actions.

"They take great pleasure in watching the tiny beast squirm around before tearing off limb after limb, slowly killing the small insect without a second thought. No, not even pleasure, boredom. They don't even kill it for food, they merely destroy it for the pure simplicity of doing so. How can you call me a monster, a demon, when you humans do worse than I?!" Seemingly done with his speech, the vampire cuts off itself as a source of light, casting them once more into darkness. "...My name is Dimitri..."