You need not apologize. I have never crossed paths with a vampire. They say they avoid the cities of the Drow, but perhaps it is more that they are created upon the surface and it is wiser to stay nearer a food source than to scour hundreds of miles below in the lightless dark for food when it is more numerous under the stars.

[He really didn't know.

He inclined his head at her thanks.]

I would do what is necessary to protect the others of this city as well.

[That was to say if he failed in the first, he would see to the second. It was a strange thing to promise, but he felt she might understand his motive.]