"Well, sure, if you want to do it that way. Course, you couldn't do it that way until recently. The City never stopped moving before. That's actually what I had been working on before I decided to come out from the basement." Fred looked as if she were thinking. She looked into his eyes before looking to the monitor again, her lips thinning.
"Got lots and lots of butcher paper with all sorts of equations on it." She was only a little aggravated at the thought that something she'd been working on almost since she'd gotten to the City could be solved so "easily"? She knew it wasn't going to be easy even with this information, but that did mean things may get closer to solved. "Much better than writing on the walls."
Her fingers hadn't left his hand all while she was speaking, and finally she took a breath and looked at her hand on his rather than at his face.
"I know vampires." She didn't know any other way to start, even though she was sure there were better ways. "I know demons. I know that vampires and demons can be good guys, and I know angels can be bad guys. I know that giving the benefit of the doubt is a good way to get your heart broken, but I won't stop doing it. I also know that the best and first person to lie to me...is me.
"I did something for a while, before you ever came here. I'm not proud of it, and I can't undo it." She started to pull her hand away. "I thought he was one of those vampires that was more good than bad, but he hurts people, maybe without reason maybe with. I don't know. But, he hurts people, and teases them, and is cruel. I thought he was good inside, but maybe he wasn't. He probably isn't. I just told myself he was.
"He tricked me at first, then I tricked myself." She sighed, her head bowed. "I drank his blood. He offered it, and I took it."