"Yes, I've donned the attitude of the insufferable when it's proven necessary," Devin affirmed. Vampires could be a haughty bunch, the nobility especially, and he needed to fit in. 

Her thanks came as a mild surprise, if also a mildly confusing one. Now he looked up from his work, eyebrows raised slightly. He didn't realize she'd kept the bit of cloth he'd used. "You needed it," he remarked simply. "I'm glad that it worked at all, given it's experimental." Devin eyed the cloth strip for a moment, wondering if it would be worth destroying more thoroughly. Then he quirked his head. "May I ask why you kept it?"