[He listens quietly, and gradually his expression becomes one of mild horror and grief. He pities these beings even as he despises their actions. But...at least some of them seem to have found a way of becoming...different.]

It is my ambition to lead my people, and as many of other bloodlines as will listen, in the pursuit of a higher form of vampiric existence. I have hope that both he and Willow will eventually embrace such a path. But I suspect they're both quite a ways off from that.

And now I understand the depth of tolerance you showed when I was wounded and you led me down to the blood stores. I am in your debt.