The sun was well down when Jorick shook Katelina awake. She held back a yawn as the memories of the day slotted into place. The locked room. The mysterious scarred vampire child. The whole thing was surreal. She needed to visit the room again, see if Estrilda was just a dream.

"She's real enough," Jorick said softly. "And we're going to talk to Annabelle about it."

Katelina cringed. "Can't we leave it alone?"

"For all we know she looks that way because they've ...