"Mara!" Benji moved for her when it she began to lose consciousness but of course Eli was already there so it wasn't like he was going to let him anywhere near. This was just bloody perfect. His mother was dead, his nephew was trying to defend him and his sister was fainting. Let's forget the fact that zombies had invaded the wizarding world yesterday! (Yeah okay, they weren't really zombies but Benji did watch a lot of telly.) What the hell was going on right now?
Benji sat down on a chair and eyed his sister uneasily. She did not look very good. Why had she fainted two seconds after yelling like that? He'd never seen her act like that. And great, this left him alone with Eli, someone he did not particularly care for. It wasn't that the man had ever really done anything to make Benji dislike him, he was just downright creepy. How his sweet, sensible sister could be attracted to him, Benji would never understand. "Do you really expect me to talk about this while my sister is lying there unconscious? This is ridiculous! She deserves to know too - and besides, we know what killed her, but we don't know how it happened."
Samara's eyes fluttered open and she looked up at Eli, confused. "Eli? W-what happened?" She tried to sit up but she felt a rush to her head and winced. She looked over and saw Benji and then everything seemed to wash over her at once. Her mother was dead. "Was she killed by the Kissed?" she asked him suddenly.
Benji looked at her solemnly. "We don't know for certain how it happened, all we know is that's where she was found. Her neck was broken."