"God, now you sound like my master." Ancient vampires act like cranky boomers when someone hands them new technology.

"Crystal? So, like, you know magic?" Or, is she psychic? Shit, that's what he should have asked.

"Whoa, that is brutal." He does cringe a little at the eye thing. Coincidentally, that's how vampires in his world can be killed. "Was the ritual supposed to be summoning a dark god or something like that? Does the killer get caught?"