Of course none of that has changed, nor has the question of what is safe. But between complete isolation or accepting risks, I was raised to take the latter.

[He pauses at his own words. There's still so much grief about his family to get through, but...but he does feel that there is a point worth making here. Because yes, of course, the world is unsafe for dhampirs, but his mother's attitude was right. There was enough in the world to make it worth seeing.]

My father was a vampir in full. He saw the world because my mother asked him to, and if you think that the question of safety is an issue for us, well, there were greater struggles for him. Yet he always returned. Not entirely changed, but bettered for no longer holding himself apart.