I hear Leona got competitive, wanted to be better than the other children at everything. Enid would just get bored and wander out of class in the middle, and if they tried to cane her she'd not understand why they were allowed to hit her and try to cane them back. And then Juliet behaved herself, but that was maddening in itself, because they were always expecting the other shoe to drop. I think they got off lucky with me bringing the pups into lessons.

[ Sypha's done by now, her shoulders sagging, a hand resting delicately on his hip, but- it's a pleasant topic of conversation, even if he is lying on the floor. It's been a decade, but he still misses his sisters desperately.

At least for a little while, he can forget how badly he's fucked this up. How hopeless the situation is. It's just- just nice. He laughs. Sypha smiles, exhausted but here for the exchanging of stories. ]

Not the danger we ever expected a vampire to pose to drunken strangers, persuading them to part with their street food. But you're going to have to come up with something else, I'm afraid, if she's already heard that one.