She laughed too, the sound getting almost immediately drowned out in the midst of the yelling and cursing, and one of the fighters went reeling backwards to crash-land on his ass on the concrete floor. The fervor of the betting increased. The smell of demon blood was getting heavy in the air.

"So what do you do when you're not hanging out here?" the vampire asked once the volume had subsided. "As you can tell, sunlight is not exactly my thing, so how does the half with a pulse live?"