Janiss: Welcome to Daughters of Darkness, a candid discussion between two immortals, myself being almost three decades old —
Nancy: (interrupting) Including living years.
J: Right, and yourself being almost three centuries old by way of comparison… also including living years.
N: You’re not really calling it that, are you?
J: What? “Daughters of Darkness”? We are. We’re night folk. It’s clever, damn it — roll with it.
N: We’re just Vampires, Janiss. Please continue.
J: Right… cool. So, okay, we’re talking about the 2016 election —
N: If we have to. I see they misspelled our code names on the cocoa again.
J: (smirks) I told them to do that on purpose. You know, like when we first —
N: (patronizing) Of course you did.
J: I figured it could be a thing.
N: (sarcastic) Of course you did.
J: Ahem. Getting back to it, I voted for Hillary. Nancy, who did you vote for?
N: As I texted back to you: not Hillary.
J: So why’d you vote for the other guy?
N: The president-elect’s name is Donald J. Trump, and I didn’t vote for him, either.
J: (long pause) I’m… confused. When I asked you here —
N: You asked if I voted for Ms. Clinton.
J: Right. And you said…
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