Under normal circumstances, Diana would have given him the excuse to slip out. But 'normal' had gone out the window with Joseph's endless eyes. And he had said the one thing that no vampire in the multiverse, no one in the multiverse had ever known to say.

"The first vampire?"

Hadn't been true in Bonnie's world. Hadn't been true in Spike's world. Not in Conrad's or Erik's or Rose's worlds either.

No. No, that was Diana's world. Her special little world of darkness.

...but one where vampires didn't have red eyes.

"Wait..."