“Great. A vampire with super-speed who’s inconvenienced by stairs.” Victoria’s voice quivered slightly and her hand subconsciously fingered her pendant as she said his race,  apprehensively watching Alex crouched for her sake. “The world’s saved.”
	She took another breath, and wrapped her arms around his chest. “I swear,” she muttered in his ear, trying to think about neither the distance between them and the ground, nor how they would fit through the window with her on his back. “If I fall or something, I’ll find a way to come back and haunt you for the rest of eternity. And I don’t mean in a ‘Casper, the Friendly Ghost’ kind of way.”