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Leif: Thorn, I . . . I’m sort of, uh. Having a visitor tomorrow? So you need to find somewhere else to stay.

Just for the day! I’m not kicking you out!

Thorn: No, no, I get it!

Leif: It’s not like you did anything wrong —

Thorn: — but you don’t want questions about the stray vampire sleeping under your bed.

Thorn (thinking): How is anyone supposed to get to sleep in a miserable place like this?

No wonder the most long-lived vampires all put humans in thrall . . . Someone’s got to build us those nice castles.

[bonk]

Thorn: Having an animal in thrall is also turning out to be pretty great . . .

Tiernan: Super-hearing! Use it now!

[squeak squeak / hff hff / ah–!]

Thorn (thinking): . . . Oh. Leif meant that kind of visitor.