"Is that what all this is about?!" She stared at her sister in shock, then shook her head slowly. "Zoe, at that time - you weren't ready! And when I think about what's happened - about the Strigoi that nearly killed me - I'm grateful that you weren't there! What if it had drank from you and I - I never saw you agai-" She broke off as tears filled her eyes and truly fell this time. Turning away abruptly, she sank onto the couch, sobbing. She could barely handle the very thought of her sister being killed by one of the undead vampires - and coupled with everything else - Zoe thinking she didn't matter, and what she'd read in that book last week about what happened...it was all too much for her to take in.