Sorin is quite a vain vampire really; it comes with living around Benedikte for three hundred or so years - no matter how sensible he was at the start anybody would end up slightly arrogant at the end; just another curse of being a vampire.

"But you must be destroyed, I can't protect my master if I'm dust," he sneers; tilting his head and allowing his eyes to flick over her - it's a trick that the starlets use when they want to intimidate people; and while Sorin thinks that all of them are brainless they must have some good ideas. "Besides, how can you stand against a vampire?"