"Yes," she said. "We do. Two different types, actually. The Moroi and the Strigoi. The Moroi are living, mostly peaceful vampires who drink blood but also eat food and never kill people. The Strigoi are more your Dracula sort of vampires, bloodsucking, soulless and undead."
She shuddered at the memory of Strigoi, still one of her greatest fears.
"I grew up an Alchemist - and one of our most important jobs was to hide the existence of vampires from the world."