And, indeed, Liliana did deliver him a tart look because obviously she had considered Eric, but that wasn't the point of the minigame thought exercise. That was to pin down how much she disliked that other vampire, but weighing her existence against other people she disliked. Intensely.

It was good to have a precise accounting of where people existed on your hate-o-meter. Then you knew in which order to sacrifice them should the need arise.

Still, tart look aside, her answer was fangless. "And if I decide that I do want a vampire to come in and lead the capstone class, Eric would be my choice," she said. "I considered Olivia - and Runo, of course - but neither of them are Planeswalkers, so I would have to bring the class to Innistrad--" She bet he loved that idea, "--or program them into the Danger Shop, in which case they would simply be parroting my words back to the class and I could have saved us all the trouble of saying them directly."