Collectors who share their disgusting acquisitions, a network of the lowest scum.

You have lots of friends in school, right?

Before I knew it, he started checking out who I was hanging with.

Then my life was written in detail, where I was born, where I went to school, the part-time jobs I had, my relationships and friends at the time, that I published my debut novel at age 26, that my novels were unsuccessful, details about my family, that my father was on death row.

The council was unanimous. They listed all my offences - my flights from the palace, supposed acts of cruelty, "inappropriate" friendships…

As you well know, during my teething years I had a… spell… during which I abused blood. Among vampiric youth I was, all false modesty aside, rather popular. I ran with the plasma crowd. I made a great many acquaintances… one of whom was Dettlaff.