"If you say so.  Says me?  I like it better, and even if I didn't like it better than mortality I definitely like it better than being dead.  - But Emily," gesture, "would still be alive, and she chose it, and chose it much earlier than nearly anyone else.  So, y'know, that's something."

"Bearing in mind that I have only your word to go on, Emily's case is promising, though it would be a lot more promising if she didn't look twelve."

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"Thirteen. Whatever. Maybe where you're from, there's a thriving culture of whatever it is you are making excellent role models of yourselves and humans rationally choose to join you on a routine basis and you are great about policing each other so that nobody attacks people for their blood and everybody's got an advance directive saying if they'd like to be turned on an emergency basis if they have a heart attack. I don't live there, I wouldn't know. But here? Nope, do not."

"...Is that guy Trisha attacked going to be alright, do you think?"

"Don't know. Could be. They can get him a transfusion, stitch him up. And, y'know, now he won't go home to his family and eat them."

"...If we woke anyone up we would keep them from doing that, yes."

"So they might want to, just like a normal vampire?"

"Eat, yes; kill, no.  In terms of want."

"Since I have nothing other than your word on what your kind of vampire is like, it doesn't seem like a great use of time to ask a lot of questions about how that works. Suffice it to say that I acknowledge it is possible that you are some kind of... eripmav, or whatever, which is transmissible with mental overhaul included, and drinks blood, and in spite of these disturbing features is not at drastically elevated risk of losing all interest in the welfare of others and could, back wherever you came from, live alongside human beings peacefully. That's possible. Wouldn't be the strangest thing to ever happen. But you're not at home. And I will not have you biting or otherwise injuring or transforming any humans for any reason. That includes me even if you should happen to through what I am so serenely sure would be no fault of your own find me dying, in case that was less than perfectly crystal fucking clear and in case you give a damn. And if you cannot live peacefully which means keep your teeth to yourselves alongside the human beings here, whom it is my job to protect, we are going to have a problem."

"- Do you in fact have any evidence that you could stop us from doing something.  Putting aside for the moment the question of whether we want to do anything you'd want to stop."

"Why do you suppose I might care to discuss that with you?"

"It seemed worth asking."

"I'm sure."

I want to know about cars.  And to have a diary.

"...I don't suppose we could make some sort of trade, where in return for some help in orienting to the local system, we'll... what exactly do you want?"

"I want you to be not turning or killing anyone. As long as I'm making a wishlist I'd love some way for that to be verifiable. I've made lots of progress cutting down on the local vampire population and don't want something new to come exponentiate into the niche."

"If we started exponentiating we wouldn't stay in the niche, or the locale." 

"Also I don't swear things without an endpoint."

"Nor I."

Shrug.

"Oh, that's fine, I don't consider solemn promises a form of verifiability."

"I didn't mean it as one."

"Well, you could perhaps figure out how to go home, which already has whatever utopic or dreadful equilibrium it has with there being you lot around, and that's an endpoint."

"I think it's somewhat likely that your world would be much better off if nearly everyone were - eripmavs - and while I'm not going to do anything drastic, I don't want my honor to be the only thing between me and that when it doesn't even mean anything to you.  I'll give you my word not to wake anyone for a month."