"Life sure is hard, isn't it? And full of all kinds of wacky misadventures, too." Réjean rolls his eyes. Does it matter to him if her life wasn't a primrose path before Baedal? No. All that matters is that she adapt and do so before raising the ire of the citizenry.

"We've already passed the part where I've been lenient. I didn't call the sheriff and report you for assaulting me and everyone in this bar." Kindred may be able to walk among the kine without the Masquerade, but it means that they're also held to the same rules as all the rest of the riff-raff. "What you need to do is keep your nose clean, get it up out of the air and everyone else's ass, pay attention, remember that no matter how many years you have, you're nothing here. I'm nothing here. If you can seduce some dumb fuck into a snack, more power to you. It's not illegal to feed with permission."