By contrast, Devin remains completely relaxed, even finishing the page he was reading and flipping to a new one as Trahearne spoke.

"We serve ourselves, more or less. There's a hierarchy associated with sire lines, certainly, but it's not actual enslavement. No, that is reserved, unfortunately, for the humans that many vampires claim as property. Ghastly business." One reason among many he hunts vampires, although there's just a shade too much sarcasm to make it clear he despises his race. "That said, demons have been known to play puppet master from time to time," Devin allows, chagrined. "When they can get away with it."