"He couldn't remember anything at first. He didn't even know he was a vampire." Mitchell looks at Ivan, with a tired expression of 'can you believe that?' "We kept him in the house, upstairs. After the police came to arrest me, all those humans around, he must have snapped. He killed the lot of them, then he impersonated an officer and came to let me out."

"He stabbed George's girlfriend, Nina. Then he put me and George in a cage, taunted him with it, tried to turn us against each other. A werewolf friend of George's came and I tricked us into getting out." He stares at the table as he speaks, remembering everything that had gone by in the last twenty-four hours all too clearly.