Jean-Claude motions to the people gathered around them. To the vampires who had offered their help in the fight, and who had stayed on to help in the cleanup thereafter. "I think I have started with a fairly strong base," he replies, before glancing back at Joscelin himself.

"They do not need to believe in every choice I make, so long as they believe in me," he explains. "And the fact that they have stood with me here today is a good step forward in that direction. I think they will be pleased with the changes I have planned to make to follow. Even if they are something of a reversion to the old ways." He cracks a smile at the younger vampire, before switching back to English once more. "What is it that they say these days? 'If it isn't broken...?'"