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There were two couches. They sat at right angles to each other; so while Skylar sat in one corner of one couch, Elliot sat in the other corner of the other couch. The kind of behaviour that Skylar was exhibiting was one that Elliot hadn’t ever really encountered before. Maybe every now and again when he was out and friends got drunk. Or maybe back in high school, when girls thought that to be clingy was what the boys wanted. As if that would get them the attention they desired. Though it had rarely happened to Elliot. He was a late bloomer, if he had ever bloomed at all. His friends were far more attractive than him. He seemed to attract the shy ones, and that was perfectly alright by him.

Anyway, Skylar did not seem at all shy. And nor was she drunk. The circumstances were not at all normal, and Elliot thought it was very wise to adhere to the ‘distance’ rule that she had applied. He shook his head as she apologised about her shoes. He didn’t really care, in the grand scheme of things. Shoes on the couch wasn’t exactly a huge deal in comparison to having given a girl a dodgy guitar, inadvertently killing her, and then turning her into a vampire. That was his biggest priority right now, and Skylar should want to ruin his couch with her shoes for all the wrong he might have done to her.

”We’ll go outside tomorrow night,” he said. ”There’s a lot out there that I have to show you – and there’s plenty that you’ll want to test yourself,” he said. Not everything could be taught by word of mouth. Some things had to be learned by practical application. Although he did not condone violence, Elliot taught every single one of his progeny how to fight; either gave them weapons or at least the money to buy some of their own. They needed to learn how to defend themselves, because there was plenty out there that would want them injured, or dead. Not only humans, but their own kind, too.

These were the things that he would proceed to tell Skylar; he would even find a notebook and pen. He would write things down in a nice steady list, and answer any questions that she might have. Even if she had ten questions for every point he made, at least they would get somewhere. And there were plenty of things he wouldn’t be able to cover, either – things that he would forget, or that he couldn’t answer properly because it did not pertain to his path. He knew that in the long run, Skylar would run into things and experience things that he never had; she would always have questions, because even he still had questions, and he’d been at this for nearly three years.

But he would do his best to fill her in on everything that he could; and at least fill in the basics. The very basic things that she would need to know in order to survive.