Alistair did not know how that bubble around the school had come into being or who was behind it, but he personally wanted to send that person. . . oh, what the devil was it humans sent to each other when they were grateful? Whores had fallen out of fashion some time ago, but he couldn't see why. A good whore waiting in your bed was always welcome.
Needless to say, he had been watching Tanith. If his attention was not otherwise required by someone in front of him, if Tanith and Angeline were both gone from his immediate presence, then it was safe to say that he was watching Tanith. He'd watched her constantly since she'd moved into that bastard's house, and he didn't like it at all. That bastard was a threat, and one Alistair would have put quite a lot of time and thought into removing if he could have. If the universe hadn't decided to do it for him. Now he was gone -- gone, gone, gone!! -- and he could have Tanith back to himself. A time came when Tanith had been sitting on her own in that man's kitchen for quite some time, and Alistair had known that she was communicating with the cat. He couldn't always hear when she did that, and this fact was an endless annoyance to him. He had watched her with great curiosity as she prepared herself, and when the silver bullets came out he came into understanding.
Alistair returned to his body. She meant to kill him, then? Interesting. How very interesting. It wasn't too hard to put two and two together. Angeline was gone. Domina was gone. The world seemed to be preoccupied with Scarlet Oak's whelps trapped in a cosmic fishbowl. Objectively speaking, the time to kill him would never be better. Still, that didn't mean he intended to allow it. Tanith was having a temper tantrum -- she was such a willful creature, after all -- but he had faith he could put her in line.
In time Tanith came to him, as he had known instinctively that she would. He sat a little straighter, watching her with unabashed amusement. "Do you mean to end me, Mistress?" He grinned. "I pray you do not expect me to go quietly."