Byron's sudden presence caused Kit to startle, actually jump, as his fellow vampire grinned at him. It took him a few moments to process the question posed to him, Byron's words buzzing around inside of his brain and taking longer than usual to settle. Almost as though life were moving in slow motion after the long night and even longer morning he'd had.
"Rough night," Kit answered after a brief pause, not at all eager to say much more than that. He wasn’t sure whether The Ringmaster would want what had happened to be spread about the Cirque, lest it cause more fear or tension than was already being felt. "You're looking fresher than a daisy though, so I guess the same can't be said of you."