"It's a little bit of a long story," says Jones, a little sheepish. "Well—you know what she is, I figure, if she came to you for help about the Huntress thing. About a year or so back, I was actually posing as a vampire myself as part of an attempt to hunt down another mage who'd been stealing souls." She sighs. "Then it got a lot more complicated, of course. I'm not sure why I didn't expect it to in the first place."

She laughs. "It's a bit funny. Anna and I ought to be about the same age, by my reckoning, but I tend to think of her as a bit of a younger sister. Maybe because she reminds me a little bit of my real one. I helped her along, a little, when she first... erm... received the Huntress—no one else would talk to her, and I know how hard that kind of transition can be, so..."