Natasha was ready to track Faolan down as soon as the sun set. In the end, it wasn't really that hard; she could pretend it was because of her training as a spy but in this case that would be a lie. Investigating a murder and no leads to speak of? It's where she would have been too.

"Hey," she says from the alley's mouth, not too close. This wasn't the situation for a vampire to take a hunter by surprise. For the first time, she was going to have to deal with him without the luxury of pretending that she didn't know who he is and that he didn't know what she is. "Find anything?"