"Yes, yes I suppose I did. Oh well! When you're a vampire, [i][i]if you become one tonight[/i][/i], you'll know what it's like. Then again, I suppose if you die you won't know."

She crouched down besides the girl, ran her fingers across the blood on the girl's arm and licked the blood from her fingers.

"Say, what was, [i]is[/i], your name? Just so I know whose name I have taken," she asked in her sly way.