"Not nearly as much as I did when we first met," she says, holding the pan under the running water until the suds are washed away, "which possibly speaks to the growing probability that I am insane, or am a bad-blood-cross and will eventually go insane." (See her attack that next pan.)

Or, as she can't quite keep the possibility from occurring to her, he really doesn't mean her any harm.

Despite being a vampire. Two situations that the culture in which Sunshine was raised tells her are mutually exclusive. Sunshine's experience in the last few months, however, have done much to make her doubt a lot of what she's been taught.