"Lady Gyran, Lady Gyran! Harvey Daily Press here. Is it true that your youngest grandchild has also been changed?"
"I refuse it! It cannot be. It is some tart with delusions of grandeur who thinks she can scare me. Me! I fought my share of leeches in my time. All of them, filthy, parasitic vermin! My granddaughter is safe at training. She will never be a vampire. I will not lose another one."
"Chancellor, from Bartleby's Bites. There are those who say that it is your fault for driving away your family members. Do you have any response to that?"
"Tell those obviously insipid fools that the world will not be saved until all vampires are dead. If my work must take me from my relatives, so be it: it is for the greater good."
"Steward Frostly from the Bavarian Herald. Ma'am, why is this the first time you have addressed the press directly? Are you afraid of society's response to your answers?"
"If society thinks that I am wrong for the job, they would have removed me effective immediate. I am among the best for the job, as equally suited as the rest of my peers and comtemporaries, and what's more, I have the blood of my ancestors, the same liquid that ran through the Honorable Rosa Gyran's veins, the same ichor of Harold Gryan Lily, the eradicator of those infected in the forests of the Southern hemisphere. Considering my pedigree, is there anyone who would doubt my ability to lead you?"
"..."
"Well then."
"Madam Chancellor, I have one more question, for the Jefferson State Tribunal."
"So be it."
"Madam, if one does consider your 'pedigree', as you say, one will see that since the middle ages, your family has had the largest percentage of vampire-transfers than any other family in the world. For example, Yvonne Lily, daughter of Harold G. Lily, re-inflated the population of the infected in the Southern hemisphere as soon as she was bitten. Kiel Gyran, your own great-uncle, is responsible for starting the Recoudre, one of the prison's most violent gangs. So my question is, Madam, what will your granddaughter do? And why should she still be allowed to live?"
"This press conference is over! Out, all of you!"
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Once Bitten, Twice Shy
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