Gael stared at him.
“We’re almost out.” They weren’t, but it was a good distraction.
Gael sighed. “What time is it? Sundown soon?”
Archie glanced at Edie. “No, sundown is a while away still.”
“When do you normally wake up?” Edie drummed a nail against her coffee cup, and it made Archie frown. She did it now and then, but it had an almost frantic rhythm to it now.
“Close to sundown. It’s gotten earlier and earlier, old vampires can be up most of the afternoon, not out in the sunlight of course, but awake. I usually wake an hour or so before sundown.”
“But you’re awake now?” Edie put her cup down and studied him.
Gael gestured at himself. “Yeah.”
“This is strange, Archie.”
It was. Both Edie and Gael were…altered. He did not want to think about what it would mean for him. “A little.”
