Goodness sakes, it was like this family was a bad luck charm! Not only was the paintings frame damaged - oh, would the older half-vampire be mad? - but the floor was as well. Perhaps the shriek was justified.

Underaged magic didn't help Maxie calm down in the slightest. It was illegal, for starters. And to see a half-vampire wield such power.... "Perhaps you should go ask your father to do it." Yes, the human father. Bad decision aside, at least the man didn't have an instinct to eat her.