Learning new things about our new world has been a slow process. Before the vampires showed up, we could only directly deduce from what we saw. But even after they showed up we couldn’t risk asking them outright what the vampire world was like. We learned slowly and deduced a lot from hidden meanings in sentences. It was different with Edric.
“Witches are a plague.” He said, pulling more things out of the navy blue bag. “They reproduce about as fast as humans, and are insufferably arrogant in their dealings with the occult.”
Unlike vampires, I knew about witches from children’s stories. They were satan’s servants, they did his bidding on our earth and lured people to eternal damnation in hell. That was the explanation my religious governess had given me, but religion was not something I
