"I'm glad to be here, too," Lenore says, softer and more sympathetic now that they have a better understanding of each other and they can move past that bit of tension. "In my world, humans and vampires are on very bad terms with each other. Lots of war. It's very pleasant to be somewhere with nothing more than mutual wariness."

She's intrigued by what Abby says about not sure why she was summoned, because Lenore isn't sure either. None of them seem to be sure, even while the major nations seem to value them so highly. They don't really do anything. "I don't know why I was summoned either. Thorne brought me in, and they said something about having heard stories of my heroic deeds. Which is interesting, since I'm a diplomat, so if they brought me in for heroic diplomacy you'd think they'd put me in a high-ranking political position rather than letting me putter around trying to get work as a seamstress. What did they tell you about why you were summoned?"