Zoe listened as Sydney spoke of what happened in the first month of the Palm Springs mission and she paled. By the time the older Sage had finished, Zoe shifted closer to her sister and curled up against her. "They...they didn't tell me that..." She swallowed and looked up at her sister. "How...how did you get out of there alive? Without being turned into one of those things? Not that I'm not grateful just...Strigoi don't generally leave victims alive..." She was trying to mask the fear that talk of Strigoi usually brought but was failing.