"I didn't mean what you do in bed, Perry. Just you're a lot closer to LaF than I was to my only high school boyfriend before I realised why that didn't work." Laura shrugged. "And stop pinching me?"

She frowned. "I don't think Mattie wanted to swap us all? She said something about me dealing with bloodlust? I think it was meant to be just for us and you two were caught by accident? Hardly the strangest thing Silas has done. And 'Little Monster', Carm?" Her voice promised that there would be a lot of teasing later.

On the ground 'Kirsch' groaned. "What did Mattie's spell do?" She rolled and started to look at her hands before patting herself down in shock.