Dramatic old people. Daniel is fine, and he did mean both micro and macro, anyway. (It's not that it's traumatic, it's that it's his business, is all.) Having fun not dying, and having fun hanging out.

"Oh, I'm definitely putting out a purely fictionalized one as a sequel," he says, even though this is not true, because Daniel would explode and die, he cannot let any little obfuscation go, the most annoying kind of investigator, "just to confuse all the very angry vampires further."

It'd be funny, though.