"A— what?" Eloise asked slowly as her eyes went wide.
Caius opened his mouth to speak more about the bombshell he had just dropped on this pretty songbird when Kaya chose to interject.
"A Vampire," she said, "You know, Creatures of the night. Masters of darkness. Beings of pure bloodsucking evil…"
Despite the terms and the almost macabre grandness to them, Kaya had a smile on her face to show—if it wasn't already clear considering she had known about this and accepted it for so long—that she was mostly just having fun.
Caius rolled his eyes just as Eloise shook her head at Kaya.
"No, he's not," she said and then looked at Caius, "No, you're not."
At this point, Caius's hand had dropped from her cheek and he directed his eyes towards it, causing Eloise to follow and stare at the back of his hand just as veins surfaced and his fingernails transformed into claws that glinted almost metallically. 'Threatening' their ability to pierce through any skin no matter how thick.
