You can't very well expect to blend in with a place that you never experience to begin with.
[It's not a retort or a challenge — just Lisa musing aloud, mostly to herself. But things are different for her than they are for her family, and sometimes it's too easy to forget that. They'd decried her for witchcraft and the accusations had been baseless and false. But Vlad and Adrian are vampires — are the things that foolish men shun and fear.
For an instant, a sudden and paralyzing thought strikes her — of men with torches someday coming for Adrian like they'd come for her, ropes binding her son's wrists, silver needles set against his skin —
No. No. He broke the chains that held her. He wrenched through iron. He can change into a wolf and a bat, he's strong, he's fast. They couldn't take her son the way that they took her. They couldn't take her son. The world couldn't take her son.
i have GOT what it TAKES
[It's not a retort or a challenge — just Lisa musing aloud, mostly to herself. But things are different for her than they are for her family, and sometimes it's too easy to forget that. They'd decried her for witchcraft and the accusations had been baseless and false. But Vlad and Adrian are vampires — are the things that foolish men shun and fear.
For an instant, a sudden and paralyzing thought strikes her — of men with torches someday coming for Adrian like they'd come for her, ropes binding her son's wrists, silver needles set against his skin —
No. No. He broke the chains that held her. He wrenched through iron. He can change into a wolf and a bat, he's strong, he's fast. They couldn't take her son the way that they took her. They couldn't take her son. The world couldn't take her son.
And yet still, the fear doesn't entirely abate.]
...It never quite seems fair, does it.