When Katelina woke in the late afternoon she stared groggily around. Her first thought of the day was that Jorick had been right - warm sunlight shone through the yellowing blind and splashed on every surface. She wondered vaguely if sunlight would fry him like it did the Hollywood vampires, but decided she didn't want to know. Besides, how could she ask a question like that?

She filled the time by flipping through all thirteen channels of "cable" and enjoying the natural ...