Coromotto looks a little surprised to see Cascia so close - perhaps because he's shaped like a predator and she's shaped like prey - but he wags his tail kindly.

Daine, for her part, is considering vampires. She knows there are some in New York, but she's been given to understand that they're not over dangerous. They have to behave themselves, or somesuch. But there are no vampires in Tortall. If there's any particular way folk are meant to deal with them when they don't feel like behaving themselves, she's yet to hear of it.

"How do you fight them?" Coromotto asks, sensibly getting straight to the point.