No, but you're happy to take up plenty of my minutes with this useless little thing. She was just like an irritating blonde roadblock that happened to know how to flash a smile. Liliya was certain that she could be just as bad when the situation called for it, but at least she was on the right side of things. And no, she did not give even the slightest bit of a damn that ABC there believed she was in the right as well. For all that she knew vampires to be superior and that one day they would be in control at the current moment in time all that she was doing was try to get them rights that were equal to those of the human species. It had been more simple before the Light of May when they had just been the clueless cattle they were meant to be. Now I'm thinking like a Gabriel. But it's true, they're good for being used and the food supply. Other than that... Nothing.
And what was so funny? Really? Don't lie to a liar, Calvert. Oh that was nice, now there were two Calvert's that she knew and had to put up with and they both landed right around the same mark for general intelligence and how they regarded other forms of life. Or unlife. "Now you're insulting my intelligence, Mrs. Calvert. No one with even a drop of sense would believe that line you just tried to feed me. Once cannot have a career in politics or law without their opinion flavoring what they do, especially when the matter hits so... close to home." Liliya's tone and facial expression did not change, but it felt like she had overestimated how long she was going to be able to handle this without starting to wonder what it would be like to snap ABC's pretty little neck. She would never actually do it, mostly because of the amount of trouble she would be in from her elders to stay nothing of the police, but she could think about what it would be like. Wonderful, she imagined. How the vampire that had bitten her had not... Liliya kept smiling. "I said that I was confident that you'd counter me. I never once indicated that I thought your counter-arguments would be good enough to actually have an effect. You need to listen more carefully if you're going to try to poke holes in what I say. Calvert's have a bit of a track record for looking ridiculous when they try that." Cameron, of course, and the debate. Liliya stopped when Amanda stepped in front of her; or not exactly in front of her, but she had most definitely made it obvious that she was putting herself in the way. One of Liliya's eyebrows arched. "I wasn't aware that I was using my dentistry to get myself anywhere. Silly me, I thought that I was using my position and the fact that the mayor should be very open to seeing me before he has something like a witch hunt on his hands courtesy of the... human rights activists." Brainless cattle. Leaning just a little to the side, Liliya gave the wide-eyed secretary a smile. "Molly, could you go and see if the mayor's willing to see me about this matter? Make sure to add that if it makes him and Mrs. Calvert here more comfortable then I'd be more than willing to have her in the room as well." Liliya flicked her eyes back over towards Amanda. "And I can take no for an answer. When it comes from someone in a position with influence over me." You're practically a secretary for all I care, ABC.