"It's... hard to explain to anyone who isn't a vampire. It's kind of a willpower thing and kind of that vampires are two or three different kinds of magic." Maugris literally doesn't actually have words for how it works. He suspects the language there were words for it in was wiped out with the flood.

He rubs the back of his neck. "I don't know, maybe. It's just that the normal people around here - like, say, the ones who run hospitals and things - probably won't react as well to vampires as Visitors. I'm honestly just grateful I haven't met any vampire hunters. I really don't need someone going Van Helsing on me."