"What is your kind called?" Not real, but hoping to be one day. She can understand that wish, feel it sharply. Feel it sharply and know that it won't be achievable for her. She will only continue to walk down that road in the other direction.

There is only a moment of hesitation before she continues. He seems ready to reveal himself, and she has already taken the bigger plunge and landed softly. Sure, his creator might have told him terrible things about Kindred, but he also might have told him good things, or nothing at all. "Have you been told about," Kindred or vampire? The more commonly used one, probably, "vampires?"