"I know what you told Ivan." Let Deacon think he's got plenty of people in his pocket - Ilde reports well enough for the both of them. Remy stays standing for now, casual.

"It wasn't other vampires - your young ones weren't the only ones to die. You were used."

Someone strangled the undead population until they were on a precipice, and then shoved them over, wielding exploitation like a knife. Better and more horrifying than a bomb, more personal and violating than a virus. Real people taken over and turned into mindless weapons.

"The anti-xenian propaganda's been a setup. They're bigots, sure as hell. But this weren't no aim of theirs. They pulled that to distract from somethin' else."

Worse than in-fighting and more insulting than hatred. Pawns.