Half of it just wasn’t true, and to come through she’d have to call in some favors and get a lot of help and advice really fast. But she didn’t want to see these people disappear from her life as quickly as they'd entered it. And, while she hadn’t been able to understand anything of what Michael had said, she had caught the word vampire and, crazily, that had excited rather than frightened her. She knew too much from the trideo and nothing about the reality of them.