My mom beat me up," I informed my reflection. It looked back sympathetically.

It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?

Bringing children into it was just low, I decided. At least heʹd left puppies out.

Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.

She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together. But not the men? No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi.

A different word usually came to my mind when I thought of Yeva, though it did sound a lot like “witch.

I look him in the eye. "I will always love you.