The woman, now a fledgling vampire, enters the grand sire’s office. Beside her is her girlfriend. Together, they all sit down. Beside the grand sire is an executive assistant. Introductions are exchanged. The grand sire tells the woman that her girlfriend has spoken highly of her and her television career. He asks if she wants to be the DEI director of the Baltimore clan. Surprised, the woman says she didn’t know they had a program. He says that it’s new and that she would be its first director. He says that the Baltimore clan is rather homogenous. She thinks about how she’s noticed it all along, ever since her girlfriend initiated her. She wonders if she was bitten and transformed into a fledgling just to give the Baltimore clan a black woman to head DEI.

The woman protests. She balks at the idea that vampires, who kill and toy with corpses, could benefit from inclusivity. The grand sire says they indeed have some marginalized people among their ranks. Together, they have wine, during which the grand sire lays out his generous compensation, which surprises her. She asks him why they even need a DEI program and what their goal as a nonprofit is. He says they want to stop the Baltimore clan from having disparities in appetite, which could cause both a culture of abuse internally, as well as conflicts with hunters on the outside. In sum, he wants her to bring in a culture of compassion and humanity in order to control the vampire population.

The woman asks why the grand sire can’t just cull vampires who cross the line, to which he says that a culling would cause a civil war. She asks how DEI would help, to which he says that fledglings are often recruited in from vampire’s own demographics, which she points out as a racism problem. Ultimately, she thinks that the Baltimore clan is both murderous and racist, but her girlfriend says that’s why a DEI program is being pitched in the first place.

Finally, the woman asks about her safety, as a black woman, fledgling, in a community that is supposedly abusive. The grand sire says she will have immense authority in her role and also directly report to him, meaning that others will respect her, and she won’t have to put herself in harm’s way. Meanwhile, she will grow, naturally, as a vampire. Finally, he says that her job is sorely needed and that there would be no risk that she would be laid off or disposed of, even with bad performance.

The woman then confesses that her career in Hollywood was an utter failure, though the grand sire refutes that, showing her articles of how she championed accessibility in the entertainment industry. The grand sire understands that progress is hard, but he points out that, as vampires, they have immortality and therefore unlimited time to make a better future. After some thinking, and upon realizing that she will be undead no matter what as a vampire, she agrees.