"Ivan," Ilde declares, with a teeny-tiny sip of champagne, "is normal for a vampire." Which doesn't suggest anything positive about his interactions with humans, honestly, but she doesn't seem to be paying any mind to that (or even considering that she should). Hasi was right, earlier, about the appeal of Gutters; somewhere to go where human is the minority, and it's reflected in the ways she lets her illusions thin.

It's a very conscious thing-- she has her own familiarity with repression that leads her to following Jules around, poking at her to see what she can stir loose.

"I didn't really plan for him to be my vampire in the first place, though. I don't know how that happened."