Spawn.

[He corrects him, gaze returning to him.]

I'm not a true vampire, I'm a spawn of one. It's also a curse not from this world, so it may not work as it should. Especially since they speak of it as if it's not some curse, but something akin to a . . . a cold? [He, of course, won't delve deeper into his other, more personal thoughts on the matter. Those he will just have to suffer alone like a true angsty vampire. He shrugs.] Those two reasons alone don't inspire much hope in me.