"I'm not claiming that you have a death wish," kind of tramples over this question. Armand would like to be understood, given how relatively infrequent (he thinks) conversations are, will continue to be. "But you run to danger. It's how you've survived this long, and so you think it will serve you now."

And away from safety, from comfort. Boring but ultimately safe and comfortable mundanity. He had felt his aversion to it even then, decades back. Is that what Armand has on offer? Again?

"And," because he was asked a question, "are you asking that to know if I'm behaving in response to my sense of vampiric responsibility?"