"They didn't tell about the second part of the ritual," he explains, keeping his voice quiet. He doesn't want to draw her attention to him; if she needs to stare at the bodies, he wants to let her. "The part all vampires have to go through. Drinking human blood."

He wonders what it was like, for her. Whose blood it had been. If that had been the man she killed. All that he knows is that Katherine did it.

"Mikael brought in a girl from the village. I was with Rebekkah. We didn't want to."