The trolley carrying lunch wasn't in the lobby when I returned for it. Sebas had either taken it back to the kitchen or to its former destination; I couldn't be bothered to learn which one. I still felt sick to the core and my head ached terribly. I wanted to shut myself away in my room, to conceal the world from my eyes as though I had nothing to do with it. But that was the world I had found myself in. The world that had always awaited me even when I was still in the orphanage. The vampires were the enemies of humanity and they always would be. I was disillusioned by Debbie and Alexis to believe that there was a shred of humanity in all vampires, but a majority of them were callous and cruel. They did not care about human life or ending it. The detective was only doing his job to bring

