Van Helsing: “Can you tell me why in the Pampas, ay and elsewhere, there are bats that come at night and open the veins of cattle and horses and suck dry their veins?”
Seward: “Do y-”
Van Helsing: “How in some islands of the Western seas there are bats which hang on the trees all day, and those who have seen describe as like giant nuts or pods, and that when the sailors sleep on the deck, because that it is hot, flit down on them, and then—and then in the morning are found dead men, white as even Miss Lucy was?"
Seward: “Do yo-”
Van Helsing: “Can you tell me why men believe in all ages and places that there are some few who live on always if they be permit; that there are men and women who cannot die?”
Seward:
Van Helsing:
Seward: “Do you-”
Van Helsing: “Lucy’s eating children btw.”