"Sometimes it amazes me how their food doesn't even smell a little appetizing anymore. Not even what I used to enjoy eating." Liliya had not been a vampire for so long that all of her human instincts were gone, Maureen said it could take decades or even a century for that, and when Naoki cooked something she naturally stopped in to see what it was. Only to find that every time the smell made her wrinkle her nose. She was glad that she had the garden to escape to when he caused the entire house to smell. Advanced senses were not all that they had been made out to be. "He should, but ever since he got that business of his he's believed that he has a right to everything." Liliya was being quite unfair, Naoki was too gentle of a soul to ever be demanding or even confrontational with her, but he irritated her so easily. "But it keeps him occupied and out of my hair so he can continue on with it." Until the day that it interfered with anything that she needed. She had not brought him to the States to fulfill his dreams at the cost of his actual purpose.
Personally, Liliya did not much care for the morals of people involved. "Morals are rather a moot point when one speaks to politicians." Some of them claimed to have them, but those were only really there for the public eye. Like Bram Moriarty; whose daughter ran what could only be called a vampire whorehouse. "What matters to us is the race, the votes, and what we do after. Anything that can be used as a means to the correct end will be used; demon or angel or dancing bear." She might need to find a were-bear, make it transform and dance a jig for her just to prove her point. She really saw nothing wrong with using either side so long as the demons did not try to tear the town down around her ears. Now when that happened they would be a problem to be taken care of but until then... well, she suspected they had always been around. Maybe they did vote. That introduced an entire new demographic and she would need to have words with the mayor and several other people on it when she went back to the office. "Perhaps the bride was afraid to call attention after her little incident." That still irritated Liliya. Moronic vampires who could not control their base urges going out and wreaking havoc for all of them. Now the funeral, that was just dismissed because Liliya hardly cared since they affected her not at all. The surviving son was too young to vote. "I still prefer the idea of them being no more. He's like a gnat; harmless but very distracting as he buzzes in your ear." And those connections of his thanks to his father. Liliya did not approve.
"Encountered anymore members of the more... interesting families?" Elizaveta seemed to have a talent for coming across them.