"I won't lie Surreal. I take pleasure in the world I was born into, but I wasn't born into that pleasure. I had to work for it, to find it. And truthfully I find that countless members of the Aristo class that take their Blood and their birth for granted? For even more than it is worth? I have no respect for that. Who am I to say that those who rule are any more important than those who are ruled."

He poured them both another glass of wine.

"You don't consider yourself Circle?"