"She's a fool if she thinks she's going to change anyone's mind," She held her hand out for the bottle, "They drink blood to survive. Disgusting. Not to mention their skin - ugh," She shuddered and nearly gagged, "-there's no amount of makeup that'll cover up that corpse look." Because what was most important was a woman's appearance. Even plain women would get chosen over a vampire. Well.. depending on the man. August had his pick of the litter when it came to women and he still had sex with Lyra. So, there was that. Maybe the reason he hadn't found a wife yet was because Elsbeth was only steering him toward women who were actually alive and attractive. It was a pity ghosts couldn't reproduce. Although then she'd have a half-vampire nephew and a half-ghost(?) niece. No, it was probably better to begin looking for women who were thin and frail with a sickly pallor. That was more her brother's type.