Karla wasn't entirely certain that letting the vampires keep ahold of the maenad was a better idea, but she could concede that it hadn't even crossed her mind at the time.

"I don't regret her death," she said slowly. "For what she did, for what she tried to do, and what she's done before, it was fitting. But I regret why I did it. I was scared and angry and hurting. I didn't kill her because it was right, even if I think that it was. I killed her because I knew I would always be afraid if she lived."