Cian was a little puzzled at her apparent lack of control, and this made him wary. The last thing he needed was to have her freak out and flip while around him. After all, if what he had noticed, and Rhiannon had commented on, was true, and a large number of things were starting to congregate in this corner of the world, she was going to have to start to get herself under control, or she wasn't going to last long at all. The vampires alone would make minced meat of her.

"Y' ever used wards, or anythin' like that t' help y'?" he asked, knowing it was the first step Annie had taken in helping him.