“If you are going to risk yourself for him, for love,” Bade began, “then you need to prepare yourself to pay the cost for it. You may believe that you will be different, that you will slip through such a noose unscathed, but it is inescapable. There will be a price for it. When one of our kind loves something that is mortal … there is always a sacrifice that must be made. Although perhaps you just began to pay it.”
