"And after -- I did, didn't I? I just left you there. My only thought was getting back to the castle." Everything had felt incredible but also so, so wrong. She had ached, and was so thirsty. So hungry from the moment she started turning.

Everything had happened so quickly, she could barely remember any of it. Georg had bitten her, and then they danced, and then suddenly she was in the snow with Alfred and everything was so cold.

"I didn't mean to turn you. I didn't know what I was doing. Not at all."