I am not belittling you. You are clearly intelligent and adaptable, and I would have thought you had been at this for at least a year. [He spreads his hands.] Also the idea of an apprenticeship appeals. Too often, elder vampires cope with the high mortality of our new converts by making many and not getting too attached. But that is a wartime practice. I would rather focus on people one at a time and give them their due.

[He crossses to his book-piled desk.] Oh, well, besides things about you...things about your time period! Technology and American society and the motion pictures. I like them. [He gestures to a certain stash of DVDs on his desk which involves of course the entire line of MST3K.]