"I understand. Noor can teach you about keeping close to your humanity. She helped me a lot. See?" She moves a bit closer, into the light. She actually is quite human-looking now that she's not crying bloody tears.

"If you don't want to kill humans, like me and Noor and Catherine, you don't have to. Managing your thirst is a skill you can learn too. She's never ever killed an innocent person in three centuries!

"And you can learn which animals have blood rich enough to hunt them for. Like sometimes, we bring down a big dinosaur together! The carnivores especially have yummy yummy blood."