[@Aisling] "It wasn't worth living because of your own mindset," the father said. "With me, it wasn't my siblings turning away from me but my son. My own son. My father died when I was 23, and I've never met my mother. She died giving birth to me. I've spent a few years as a so-called hostage at the court of Sigismund II, and a few years in exile in Transylvania. I had to send my own children to my worst enemy to avoid a war. After someone of John Hunyadi's army had beaten me to death - after I had turned into a vampire - I had to be on the run for many years again, my family believing me dead... I mean, the part of my family that hadn't been murdered."