". . . Impressively perceptive, honestly.  Uh, good call."

"Okay. So, can you - edit vampire powers?"

'Not yet.'

"Will you be able to after enough art?"

'Of course.'

"Do you have a guess how much art?"

'The span between my arrival on Earth and the beginning of my work on vampires lasted several years.  I expect similar growth to take substantially less time with the knowledge and resources I have available here but can produce no more-exact figure.'

"Yeah, order of magnitude was what I was looking for."

'I expect this to take substantially less time,' they repeat.  'Though I strongly predict there will be no progress of that kind within the next few weeks.'

"Because you're too upset?" guesses Cam.

'No.'

"...oh, how come then?"

'The first time took years.'

"...oh, I thought by progress you meant incremental movement toward the goal and suggesting there would be none for weeks meant that there would be no work on the project at all."

'There will be no progress on fixing vampirism until I have enough magic to edit it.  I will continue to amass power as quickly as I am able.'  They start to idly breeze their hair around a bit but cut it off again.  'Though I may be able to plan out in advance what changes I will make, and save time in so doing.'

"Cool. You can run ideas by us for - sanity checking."

'Of course.  How do you think I should handle the affection altering.'

"Why did you want to include it at all? I don't think it's a classic vampire power."

'Many fictional vampires can make themselves supernaturally compelling, and I was led to believe some people would willingly enjoy having that emulated.  But mainly it was that all artists have the ability and I have myself found it useful.  Most recently, it was convenient when trapped in my realm of origin to improve the ease of interaction with some of my conspecifics, and, when I arrived here, to cut off any spare feelings for them.'

"Huh. I mean, some people might be into it, there's lots of people with disparate preferences."

'So I should revise it rather than eliminating it entirely?'

"You could make it work consensually but I think Judy had other objections?"

Judy is under the booth with her cat even though this risks messing up her pretty pretty dress.  She leans out.  "I think making it consensual would work okay.  As it stands it's the most obvious method of defending yourself if, say, you're being attacked by a feral vampire, because everything else needs to be consensualish.  Also we need to discuss the fact that vampires go feral sometimes but that's separate."  She ducks under the table again, then back out after a beat.  "Also also, it would be great if compelling someone worked on the level of like, making them at all respect your stated or obviously-assumable preferences instead of just.  Shiny."

Ancora teleports out again but is back within a few seconds, computer in hand.  They send Cam some sheet music.

Sure, Cam will play this with them.