I would hope you might consider restraining your spite for maybe a minute to give me an actual answer. [A hope that has already been dashed.] Pasta, then. It'll cook quickly and she'll be satisfied. I think I have sauce in the freezer.

[The vampire had learned to freeze things for late night meals some time ago. It has serves the three of them well ever since.]

But the point remains, you get to pick the fancy food. I'll try and make one of your grandmothers' apple pies and you can tell me how I have failed.

[He knows that to be this close runs a risk. But there was an agreement before any negotiations were finalized, Sypha would have to run the draft by the vampire. So tearing cannot happen so easily.]