“You didn’t know about the bounty.” It would seem that Cerasus knew little more than she had before facing the hunters. Something about his lack of knowledge on the matter made Izzy feel slightly better. At least she was not the [i]only[/i] one in the dark, metaphorically speaking. And at least it was not normal for a bounty to be out on vampires. Just, apparently, Cerasus. She resisted the urge to ask what he had done to get a bounty put on him, but only just.
	When Cerasus turned to her with his answer to her final question, Izzy’s eyes narrowed. “Because it’s totally normal to be capable of escaping with the state you were in compared to the power of the hunters,” she grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest as his gaze softened slightly.
	“What time difference?” She shook her head and placed her fingers to her temples. “Know what? Not important right now.” She moved both hands in a dismissive gesture, more to try getting the question out of her mind than anything else. If things were to get any better, she needed to put her head in the game, if for no other reason than so she would not be beheaded. Or de-limbed. Whichever came first, if not both. “We need to get your missing parts back... Man, I [i]already[/i] miss conversations that didn’t involve that sentence.”
	Izzy exhaled slowly and put her hair up into her usual half-ponytail as well as she could without a mirror or hairbrush, hoping having it out of her face would help her think.
	“We need a plan,” she continued thoughtfully, twirling a piece of her hair that was too short to reach the ponytail. “If I’m the only one in any shape to face them between the two of us, we’re in trouble. I don’t know how much Mr. Riley is willing to... help us help ourselves,” she glanced to him, hoping she had gotten one of his favorite phrases correct, “but either way, meeting [i]them[/i] on [i]their[/i] turf was a fiasco. We need to set a trap for them, and get [i]them[/i] to come to [i]us[/i] without them knowing it. They said they’ve been trying to find your hiding place for a while. Where were you staying before here? I don’t know how they sniff vampires out, but if you’re smell, aura, or whatever they can track is still there, maybe we can use that to our advantage. Unless we want to lure them here.” She glanced around the room, then to the door leading to the shadowy hall beyond. “There’re three of them, and two of us. This place is pretty big. If we separated, unless they wanted to risk one of us escaping, they’d have to split up to catch us, right?"