I know a little more about you now, Audray, or whoever you really are. The New Year is near, and my son’s resolution will not include you. Or I could make your life very uncomfortable after I tell James about you.

Yes my sister left. But she didn’t truly come back.

It cannot be your child one day; once you became a Kin, you became immortal like a Night Empian, and lost the ability to create life.

The longer you live by the dark, the better you come to understand its dark nature. It takes darkness to see darkness. Maybe they are suspicious for a reason, or for no reason other than they know what the Dark has a tendency to be. Maybe their human side trusts you more than their dark side trusts him.

The war comes down to us, Cassandra, to us.”“He brought you here to remember something; he wanted to give back to you what he took. Now, leave him be, but in memory.

I think you know what I am talking about. If I had not been there, what would you have truly done? I was there so I heard his proposition. Would you have stayed and watched what he would have done to her, or would you have fled because you would not have been able to handle it, because you were still running away from your own nightmare?” His eyes narrowed. “But you knew he was lying. He would have killed Cassandra, anyway. And if you stayed, he would have killed you too.

I just wanted to hear you beg. You’re almost as pitiful as those useless bodies on the floor.

So it is time for you to face it and accept it. I am ready for this battle, Cassandra. The question is: will you be?

But I’m not going to as long as I can help it, as long I’m breathing I will not stop the breath of another, Kins or humans or whoever. Words don't make us do what we’re supposed to do. My actions are my own, I don’t care who wrote them. So I’m going along with this journey to find my own path.