Maugris waves him off. "I'll be fine. I've been a vampire for thirty years and I haven't starved yet even when there were fairies trying to kill me. I can handle myself after having one unexplained frenzy. Besides, it's impossible to frenzy twice that quickly."

This is in fact an outright lie - though it does take a lot of provocation - but it's mostly an attempt to get Otoha off his back.