[@Aisling] "You should," Dracula said. "Twelve years ago, when I started to plan my coup d'etat, I was just like a version of you with more money... I was rich, but I didn't have any political power at all. People didn't even know how I was. They didn't know I was a vampire, and they believed me to be a descendant of Vlad the Impaler. I couldn't stand it any more how my predecessors were destroying the country. I started from scratch, so to say. But over the following two years, I had more and more people on my side, until in 2005, I've had a group of 40,000 soldiers to help me with taking over power."