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.

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.

Come on, Wind Dancer, it’s time to go. It’ll be just you and me asking for the night’s companionship.

You should have come the minute you suspected anything. You tell me you would not betray me, and yet your actions challenge your words.

She became uncontrollable and violent, succumbing to a greater depth of evilness than any Night Empian had ever seen. She turned on us, one by one, taking men away for her own torture and pleasure...an art she mastered well. She claimed she only wanted to keep the Night Empians in line and strengthen them. But she opened a more dangerous depth to the Night Empians psyche that not even the Dark Guardian was able to reach.

Do you see the river of truth, Lharkin? Do you understand that two are one?

We are all monsters.