Klaus lets her go and get dressed, hitching up his pants, tucking himself back in and zipping up as he watches her. The way she's staring, and trembling. He makes no move to reach out, but he is there.

"Have I ever told you," he asks, quietly, although he knows he hasn't, "about the night Esther turned us?" Esther's a compromise. He'd been about to call her the Original Witch, but he refuses to call her his mother right now, in that particular sentence.