"Just wait for some dumb author t'write a book series about fae. The teenagers will come and fawn all over you then." Personally, he would have paid good money to see Balem dealing with a sixteen year old girl trying to pledge her undying love to him.

The only good thing that had come of humanity's latest obsession with literary vampires was providing the Islington Nest with plenty of little blood-bags who were oh-so-willing to be fed off of. Cooper would still be glad when pop culture replaced them with some other fad.