[Something about those words strike him a certain way. Perhaps because being "Weak" had always been synonymous with his existence, both for his struggles with illness and because of his clan's own status. The idea of being strong in any sense of the word is something he has been struggling with this whole time. To be a vampire is to be strong, that is easy to understand and it's something he's always known. But to place himself in that equation...]

Can a creature like me really become strong...? I never would have thought it could be possible.

[A quiet pause.]

Every part of me has always been weak, that I feared even the blood itself would reject me upon entering. It's hard for me to grasp that I could be something more than I always believed.