A couple months. No more. I've had trouble keeping dates straight with him with all that's happened recently. He was having a very hard time until late.

[She sighed as she said that. Lance's situation had been difficult to say the least.]

I was dead before I bled out. But at the moment... well, let me show you.

[She laughed a little and reached up, undoing one clasp at the top of her collar, along with the top of the brace. Gently, she lifted her head and brought it down, resting it in the crook of her arm to smile over at Krolia and shrug. Just like a Dullahan.]

You caught on. It's the fact that we were forced to see false and true crimes, from here or our homes, over and over again, publicly. It's been a psychological warfare she's waging with us.

And, as for me... well, it seems that I don't bleed anymore like this, so I am just stuck looking like this. I'm blaming it on magic.