Awesome. Also as for getting any prizes for defeating whoever marked you, I think the best prize would simply not being marked by a different nightkin (I'd assume that nightkins can't brand someone whose already marked). Very rare, but it can also serve as a status symbol here. Sort of like a sure sign of a real badass that he or she was able to survive and ultimately overcome whoever marked them. Of course that's assuming that Nightkin can't simply just mark more than one person, or would bother going after other, unmarked individuals for reasons likely only known to them. 

But then again perhaps it's our lack of knowledge on these shadow creatures is what makes us so fearful of them. What we do "know" doesn't guarantee what would really happen. A succubus may very well prey on Malkai's friends instead of himself in order to make him forcefully confront the demon, or even distance himself and chose isolation. A vampire may be nothing more than a classy cannibal; sucking blood, weak to silver, none of that is real and it's just a romantic view of an otherwise brutal and cruel death. Perhaps the nightkin don't even truly exist, and it's all just a delusion built by our fear and paranoia in order to justify things beyond our understanding. A sort of spiritual satisfaction to the cruelties in our life. 

At least that's how Malkai might justify it. In truth he's just too scared and uncertain to know if everything that's happening to him is something magical beyond his grasp, or perhaps it's actually just a warped reality justifying his incompetence. I'm sure everyone here is crazy enough to come to their own conclusions.