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“I said I wouldn’t go toanother party. I haven’t.”
“I think breaking into a house to kill a vampire counts assomekind of party. You could have been killed. If it hadn’t been a new vampire…”
The elevator door opened again, on the floor of the executive suites. Saber looked at Ansel.
“I have a room here for the night,” he said. “Do you want to keep talking?”
He let them into an elegantly lit corner-room overlooking the water.
“Why did you get a room?” she asked, looking at the lavishly made king-sized bed.
“I was planning on staying out… very late.”
“Doing what?”
Ansel ignored the question.
“Hunting?” she asked, and he ignored her again.
“Saber,” he said, sighing. “From the night I met you I had a feeling you were going to be a problem for me, but I truly could not have imagined this. I told them if they hurt you, if they laid afingeron you, I’d make them miserable. And then you went and killed their new changeling.”
Saber walked to the window, and in it saw her own reflection bathed in the golden light of the hotel room, splashed against the black window. She thought she looked glamorous. Then, she saw the ferry, miniature from her vantage point, gliding back and forth across the sound.
“Are vampires evil, Ansel?”
“What?”
He sounded incredulous.
“Are youevil?”
“Doyouthink I’m evil?”
“No.”
She turned to him.
He smiled, but it was bitter.
“I’m not evil,” he said. “There’s no such thing as evil.”
“You don’t think killing high school kids for fun is evil?”
Ansel shrugged.
“Is a wolf evil for killing a deer?”
“Is that how you think of us pitiful humans? Like prey?”
“Some of you, yes,” he said. “And some of you I like, and care for.”
“Like how some people like their pets, but still eat meat.”
“Not a… terrible comparison,” he said with a shrug.
She felt an eerie sense of smallness in that moment. He had been alive for hundreds of years and could, probably would, live for hundreds more. She was as real and permanent to him as a pet hamster, living her entire life in a brief episode of his own. It made her feel powerless and inconsequential.
Then she looked up and saw the full moon.
