"I got it when I was small. A friend gave it to me when I first offered to the darkness," Jaenelle explains. "Normally, a witch wouldn't have such a powerful jewel at first. You have to get used to it. I'm special, I guess, because I got this one first. It makes it hard to learn things because sometimes I have too much power. Does that make any sense?"

Jaenelle has never explained what it means to be what she is to someone who has never heard of the Blood or her kind of magic. It's sort of fun, in a way, because it's like meeting the Kindred or traveling somewhere new. It's different and exciting and far away from the tedium of daily life.