"Are you serious??" Her mouth opened wider, her fangs parted and became visible as four spikes instead of two, and she was definitely trying to smile. The muscles around her eyes weren't as good at going through the motions, strained as they were by her thirst.

"I'm not even surprised by that. It's a logical enough corollary to that tradition of surnames shared between the biologically related." Her grasp on that entire aspect of human society was shaky beyond belief. "Though I've never known anyone involved in the institution of parenthood personally, so I haven't known of any 'juniors' or..." She paused to make an attempt at the right word. "Senior? Is that how it works?"