"You'll find it's quite different from most of the movie versions: the book makes one wonder which the monster and which the human, the doctor or his creation?" He says this with a note of seriousness, as if he's gone down that dark passage and thanks to The Doctor, he's taken a hard look at what came out the other end of the passage.

"Admittedly, my strength has been all over the map. Of course it had to fail me when I was in the middle of dealing with those pirates. Though ...that's when I found that ingesting Blood restored my enhancements," he notes, with a weight to his words suggesting how he discovered that.

"I do have that effect on most people," he adds, taking the cork from the wine bottle and filling his glass, then doing the same with the bottle of milk and it's accompanying cup, holding the latter out to her. "Shall we make a toast?"