"It's hard to lay down that particular series of laws very hard when I'm already fudging them," Stacia says wryly. Sure, she mostly only shares secrets and vocabulary on a need-to-know basis, but she'd bet there are some hardline Philodox out there who'd disapprove of her letting anyone peek under the Veil. "I'm mostly going to put an emphasis on 'playing nice with the other kids' and 'not completely losing your shit if a vampire shows up'."

That had been a fun argument with Kenzie. Stacia had needed to pull rank to get the Ahroun to come around to kill the vampire later, after we use them against our enemies.