[id: new scene, indoors, night. close-up of the vampire carmilla courtley standing in front of the wall-mounted TV in the living room of the small house she currently shares with her girlfriend demona, to whom she is presumably speaking as she pontificates: “it’s amazing how much one’s entire concept of the future changes once you’re expecting. before i knew i was pregnant, i had but few short-term goals and no real long-term ones…” /end id]