You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.