Ivan must be drunker than he thought he was. He could have sworn he knew his way around Vivienne's parents' house, since she wanted to introduce him last week and showed him the place, but maybe they have a... secret... upstairs... bar? where Vivienne's room is supposed to be? And most certainly was last time he checked? He's never going to find the sweater she sent him up looking for here, anyway. Why is there a secret upstairs bar in Vivienne's parents' house?
"A charming little fairy tale, wherein a girl goes to visit her grandmother with a little basket of baked goods, only to find that the grandmother has been eaten by a wolf who is now impersonating Grandma. The little girl becomes suspicious and starts asking the wolf pointed questions about the size of its ears and teeth and so on, to which it responds formulaically, and when she reaches 'teeth' it says 'The better to eat you with!' and springs at her from Grandma's bed."
Not to humans, no.
"I'm not sure I'm thrilled with that answer."
My food does not have its origins in living organisms. It would be the equivalent of 'vat girl'.
"...Better."
Admittedly not all visitors interested in consuming human products want the meat.
"Or vat whatever. Such as..."
Blood, for instance.
"Blood."
"If you want fillet of Red Riding Hood she can provide," says Linya, "she just wouldn't sneak it in if some human said 'surprise me'."
"Not sure whether my relief that she doesn't sneak human products into humans' food outweighs my discomfort with her conjuring it up on demand..."
"Maybe there are some people who actually depend on it. Are there some people who actually depend on it? Or should I just drop the subject before you get any more uncomfortable?"
Vampires are likeliest to request blood, and many variants on the theme can subsist on nothing else.
"Vampires, apparently."
"Oh, that's - that makes perfect sense by the standards of her. But I think I'm done hearing about it now."
Mark observes Miles's expression, and says, "Your clever plan to surprise me has been foiled by Stalas cackling at the top of his lungs the whole way here."
"In other news, the bar will enable any cannibalism habits you may have picked up unbeknownst to me."
"How... nice," says Miles. "Why is this a thing that we know?"
"A Little Red Riding Hood reference was made. It went from there."
"Who made the reference in question?" he asks, looking at Mark.
"It's a fairy tale. It doesn't technically involve cannibalism, just an anthropomorphized wolf eating some people."