I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn’t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.

You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is.

This isn’t the first time I’ve faced death, and I don’t intend for it to be the last,” I said, repeating the same words he’d told me before fighting in that fateful duel. “I’ve chosen to live a dangerous life, but it’s who I am, and that wouldn’t change even if we’d never met.

You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed.

Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist.

He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.

Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.