[A physical repellent, he understands, but "influence"? He'd experienced compulsion of a kind around Rebekah, but it had been instigated by Wonderland, not by one of the vampires. Compulsion is a vampiric ability he'd been lucky to avoid encountering.]
Influencing how?
and some yet live, treading the thorny road - Post a comment
which leads, through toil and hate, to fame’s serene abode