He... really needed to learn to be more subjective with his choice of words.

"They're sort of like... monsters. They don't actually exist, mind you, but they're used often in films and the like. Basically they're the undead who have come back to life for one reason or another." The more he explained it, the worse it sounded. Now he remembered why had been so put off the first time Xiaoyu had called him one.