Her hands tighten slightly on his. "I can't... speak for those here." Like the clientele would ever be so homogenous that one person could speak for them about anything - Sunshine doesn't envy anyone who'd take that position. "But that's the exact feeling we all get, vice-versa, back home."

No one gets away from a vampire.

"But it's not nearly so black and white. People might want to think it is, for simplicity's sake." And she had been one of them, wanting Us versus Them because it's was simpler, safer. But then, well, things had happened, and she can't go back to that. Can't just be the baker of the best cinnamon rolls in the history of Independencia.

"But it's not. It's really not. It doesn't have to be, either for them or for you."