She...blinked? "I didst not say all were, lord," she pointed out gently. "Just that many in the tales I knew fell to such a path. There are tales of those who did not, and if they may think at all it is a choice each makes." Hard to escape some choices, and at times a creature that needed blood from others may take the easier paths to power, but, not unavoidably.

"And I didst say that you have no such taint about you, and as such like are not friendly with those who wouldst. If you have been near these people at all recent then you would scent of darkness were they dark"