"I think you'll find that free will and choice are highly overrated commodities to most slave owners, Elena," Stefan replied, dryly. "Damon and I often use compulsion to make troublesome slaves more...receptive...to their Masters and Mistresses. How many slaves do you think we've compelled in the past fifty years or so, Damon? All of them? Or just most of them?"
He signaled to the slave serving them to refill his wine glass and murmured his thanks as he took another sip. "So that's, what. An average of about a hundred slaves every year for fifty years, so, 5000 slaves?"