You thought that if you killed more people, they would see me as less of a witch?

[What absolutely incomprehensible Ţepeş man logic. Though that's not entirely true, there's a certain amount of sense to it, if one looks at it sideways enough. It's something she occasionally has to remind herself of, when dealing similarly with Vlad — that sometimes when sorting out his rationales, one has to mentally replace "humans" with something more equivalent to the vampire experience, like "cabbages".

Still, whatever disapproval she may have, she's able to keep it carefully suspended. She'd promised him that he wouldn't have to defend himself to her, after all, so it would be a certain betrayal of that promise to make him endure her scrutiny now. Besides, there are still holes in her understanding of what had transpired that night, and if anything, perhaps having the chance to review it with someone who won't judge will be good practice for when Vlad inevitably demands the same information.]

Or was it that you thought you would be reducing the number of my accusers, so that the ones leftover would be the ones indifferent to the charges?