"Oh- thank you. Thank you so much, Lord Coward, another thing I can never repay you for." Another one to add to a long list, even if he insisted otherwise.

"She says she did. She was dying- she died, and I watched her bleed out." Her friend's warm blood on her hands, the couch's stains long since gone brown. Kenzi's new teeth biting down on her neck felt unlike any other that had ever fed off of her.

"She came to me." They were all so tied together. Colin didn't need to know any of this, and it was better if she shut up, but it was hard to say one without the other. Just as it was to identify the pit of tar that seemed to fill her stomach when she thought about it.