They won’t continue. Dracula has the influence to keep the his subjects from acting up about the idea of having no humans to feed from. Nobody else does. Whoever succeeds him will - it’ll be shit, but it’ll be the kind of shit people are alive to be miserable about.

[ He narrows his eyes at the suggestion that they leave, then shakes his head. ]

I’m not going anywhere. Not before we’ve tried the shit with the engine.