Is It Me You Love, Asks Lia, or the Race That Made Me?

We meet the lodger as he has just been patched up and packed off to a steamy, sleezy laier of blood suckers. There's a strong hint that the vampiric tionship has been flipped. After all, though the lodger is giving the family a needed bit of income, he is there to regain his health. And from each family member he seems to take something, most obviously the mad passion he feels for olia.