Nell cradled Miranda's head in her arms, bent down, and kissed her, not 
a soft brush of the lips but a savage kiss with open mouth, and she bit down 
hard as she did it, biting through her own lips and Miranda's so that their 
blood mingled. The light shining from Miranda's body diminished and slowly went 
out as the nanosites were hunted down and destroyed by the hunter-killers that 
had crossed into her blood from Nell's. Miranda came awake and arose, her arms 
draped weakly around Nell's neck.