“If you’d just allow me to turn you,” Lucius says, voicing teetering towards desperation, “we could be together forever. Isn’t that what marriage is about?”

He doesn’t understand why you’re so keen on keeping your humanity—perhaps it’s been too long since he lost his. Lucius has been a vampire for over 400 years.

The candles in the church are burning low. He doesn’t want to marry you if you’re just going to die. Lucius can’t live without you; he’s survived for too long like that.