Jean-Claude has always enjoyed being unflappable, especially in the face of a younger, easily irritable conversational partner. He can see the way he is getting under her skin and it pleases him to know it was so easy to do. He makes note of it and tucks the information away for a rainy day.

"I do not try to talk down to you," he replies. "Nor did I mean to disclude vampirekind in my statement. It is the nature of the beast, as they say, that we were all once human as well. As much as some may try to pretend otherwise." He quirks an eyebrow at her. "I would ask, however, how you justify your choices, given your objection to the thought of such treatment towards your own people in turn."