A month or so? Perhaps slightly longer. I'm unsure of how permanent the move is, in truth. If it's only to be a few months, then I doubt there's much value in spending time attempting to elbow into such circles.

[Alucard? Not wanting to deal with people? Shocking, truly.

But Vanessa says both, and Alucard lets out a tired sigh.]

Organizational hierarchy then, that's easier to begin with. Most stories agree that there is an element of territorialness to the creatures, and so large swaths of land are often theirs and theirs alone - like nobles carving up land to farm and place serfs on and raise cattle. In this metaphor, the cattle are humans, whereas the serfs are the occasional other undead. If a person is turned, they have a built in hierarchy to who was responsible for the act.

Do you follow thus far?