Armand watching Benji race down a dirt road towards them barefoot: ah, I think I... remember I had siblings that I chased in orchards as a child, like that.
Sybelle: You must have been the cutest child.
Armand: I wouldn't remember.
Daniel: If you weren't a cute child, I'd make a personal complaint.
Armand: A complaint to whom?
Benji: Wait, Djinn, you were a child? I thought vampires come from an egg?
Sybelle: Yes, how does a vampire come from an egg?
Daniel: You grow in it, like a vulture, and the little vampire fledgling stumbles out with wrinkles and gross goop.
Benji: Oh, so you are definitely freshly hatched.
Daniel: Listen here, you little-
Armand: It opens like a plastic Easter egg, and the fledgling crawls inside to incubate.
Sybelle: Does that mean there is a size limit to the egg?
Benji: Can I get one? How can I get one?
Daniel: Yeah, Maker, how does one procure an egg?
Sybelle: I bet you must craft it from your own coffin. I think I'd like if my egg were made from a piano, though... perhaps I can build one together with a Maker.
Benji: Does a vampire bat deliver one? How does he know the Maker is ready?
Daniel: Nah, nah, you gotta think buggier than that. Vampires make black silk that they weave into a cocoon, so it's a custom-fit.
Sybelle: I see, like a spider preparing for pregnancy.
Benji: Does that mean Djinn was pregnant with Daniel for 49 years? No wonder he did all that. I bet the egg was enormous.
Daniel: Yeah, luxury-penthouse-sized.
Armand: It made the hatching difficult. However, the incubation process was a resounding success, and he turned out well enough.
Benji: I bet that's why baldie has ginormous fangs, because he had to really eat his way out.
Daniel: *wheezing* hey, my baldspot isn't big enough for "baldie"
Sybelle: Do the fledglings emerge covered in blood?
Sybelle: Then the bald spot must have been from Armand's first kiss, like an angel mark.
Armand: Yes, that is correct 😊
Daniel: *muttering* I keep telling you I'm not balding!
