I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.
Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.
Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.
He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.