Katelina had a terrible night, and a terrible day. Her emotions ranged from fury to sorrow and back again. Her mind refused to settle on a single topic or emotion. It was too much information in too short a time: Sarah was dead, Jorick had betrayed her, and she was surrounded by vampires. Vampires! What was next? Maybe she was really a fairy. Or perhaps they'd kill her mother and put her head on a spike in the front yard. At the moment nothing seemed impossible.
Even the golden sunlight that fell through the window couldn't stop the swirl of horrible thoughts. She tried to sleep, but every time her eyelids closed Sarah would appear behind them; sometimes as she'd last seen her, standing in the parking lot, and sometimes as a bloody, fanged monster with mangled skin. Finally, near sundown,
