"I really do appreciate it," she said, smiling. She knew sometimes just choosing to be positive could make all the difference--and fortunately for her, she'd been blessed with what her step-brother Harry called 'gratuitous amounts of perkiness.' It was pretty hard to get Inari down.
"So, vampires are common knowledge where you're from? I didn't even know they existed until right before I found out I was one--and it turns out we have like three or four different kinds."