"I know. Fashion is strange and terrifying but these unhappy little sixteen year old children want to be vampires when they grow up and it is very distressing." Very very distressing. "Their form of government confuses me and most of them could not tell me the name of their mayor, much less the name of their Representative in Senate." Oh, Alida. Politics, really? "Oh and I met a Mage the other evening. He works at a convenience store."