Aleera held her patience as Alice explained her predicament, and felt a surge of minuscule sympathy as the young woman broke into tears. Aleera immediately steeled herself and began to think, her gaze cast downward. She didn't have time to explain the entire situation at hand, but she also knew that in a sense they needed this woman's cooperation for their plan to work. They had hoped to have it covertly and unbeknownst to Alice. The plan was to expose her face and have that snake Enduro recognize her and get her alone, so then Aleera, Thomas, and Dalton could ambush him. But this woman, Alice, was mucking everything up with her stubborn paranoia at being captured or arrested.

Aleera knew the whole story behind Alice; attacked by some red-haired lunatic and her blood drank, admitted to a hospital, and then shortly thereafter disappearing, seemingly to have leapt from a third floor window. Her assailant, Liam Enduro, disappeared without a trace. The bizarreness of the story and lack of clues and leads had attracted the media and every private investigator in New York City practically. True, there was the danger of someone at the party recognizing Alice from the news and calling the police, which would further complicate the situation and could give Enduro time to slip away.

"Hmmm..." Aleera mumbled.

[i]Hmm, play the more vindictive angle perhaps? Yes...[/i]

Aleera looked to Alice and spoke in her grave voice,"[b]Alice Lynch[/b]. Yes, I know who you are. I know what you are, you are like me my dear, [i]une Vampire[/i]. A Nightborn, a dark one. I know all about your little epic. Well, at least what Dalton has told Thomas and I. [b]And I know who did this to you, who turned you."[/b]

She stopped for a minute to let her words sink in before continuing,
"What if I told you, Alice, that [b]Liam Enduro is here tonight in disguise? Mingling about, searching for tonight's prey, unaware that my companions and I have a trap prepared for him. What if I told you that, with your help tonight, we could destroy the man that robbed you of your mortal life?"[/b]