Kevin Levin and Darkstar in “Trade Off”

If this is another one of your tricks, I assure you I am entirely sincere.

If I release you, will you at least hear me out?

You got one minute. Go!

My question is a simple one. Do you like being trapped in your current hideous form?

About as much as you like being a butt-ugly, energy-sucking vampire. No offense.

None taken. For that is precisely my point. What would you say if I told you there was a way for both of us to become normal again?

How?

I'll show you. [Kevin follows him; opens the book and points to a golden ancient object] This is the Dominus Librium-- an ancient instrument of extraordinary power and decidedly alien origin.

Looks like an over-sized wishbone.

Legend has it that the Librium was actually a sophisticated power conduit, capable of transferring extraordinary energies from one vessel to another.

Thanks for the history lesson.

But it's history no longer. After a great deal of effort and expense, I have managed to track the artifact to an isolated island recently risen in the South Pacific.