["We'll work on it. With all the witches around, I'm sure one of them will be able to make one for you." All else fails, they can use the students at the school.

Elena shrugs.]

I think after my parents died, I became more aware of it. Started dating a vampire, you get dragged into their world.

[She leaves out the doppelganger stuff because she had hoped to have left that all behind her. It doesn't need to be relevant.]

And then I was a vampire for a while. That was ... not great, honestly.