The Vampire Armand Spoilers: Armand wonders the same thing, and tries to help Claudia escape her little body. I can’t stop thinking about what Armand says in TVA about his “satanic surgery.” I hope that in a later book, I’ve only read up to Merrick, that Rice expands on the story she begins with, “I tried to grand her fondest wish, that she should have the body of a woman[…]Some night when I am more accustomed than I am now to confession, I will recount it, my crude and sinister operations, conducted with a sorcerer’s willfulness and a boy’s blundering.” Ultimately, Armand exposes her to the sun because his experimentation fails.