Silence had remained between the blue haired woman and Morgan for some minutes. He could see she was trying to formulate what she wanted to say to him and he waited patiently. It was a subject she seemed almost embarrassed to bring up but eventually she came right out with it.

"Me and Milford, the Mayor," She began, "We realised that you've worn the same clothes since you got here and you probably feel as though you could do with a freshen up."

Morgan raised a quizzical eyebrow at the blue haired woman before replying, "I have to admit I'd appreciate having a good wash and I have been wearing these clothes for a while."

"If you wanted in the morning I could bring you in some hot water or get the Network officers, the people guarding you, to help you to the bathroom and you can freshen yourself up. While you're doing that I could take your clothes and give them a good wash, it should be a dry day tomorrow so they should dry ok when I hang them out."

Quizzical eyebrow still raised, Morgan nodded his assent and watched as Bessie smiled and got up. She opened the door and left the room, Morgan's guard returned soon after and silence once again filled the room. With his guest gone, Morgan rolled himself onto his back, grunting at the pain the movement caused. He closed his eyes and tried to understand just why he, a brutal killer, was being shown such hospitality.

The first traces of dawn began to light up the sky as Robyn helped LaCroix to stand, staggering momentarily under his weight and six foot six frame. She helped him limp towards an outbuilding they'd spotted on the edge of LaCroix's make shift battlefield and using his immense strength he turned the knob right the way round, breaking the lock. He pushed the door open and they passed through the door, after a cursory examination LaCroix was satisfied that it would be sufficient for him to pass the day out of the sun's rays.

"What about them?" Robyn asked, nodding towards the bodies of the four Enforcers still strewn on the grass.

"The sun will take care of them. There will only be ashes by the time it's risen to its peak."

LaCroix fell quiet as he considered the woman in front of him. She looked and sounded like Robyn, she moved and every feature of Robyn's was here but he couldn't convince himself that it was her. He'd left Robyn in the hospital room; there was no way she could be with him now. One of his main concerns was that no matter how he tried he couldn't hear her heartbeat, he couldn't pick up her scent and when he closed his eyes he couldn't feel her presence.

"You could say this is an evolved form of astral projection," Robyn explained, sensing LaCroix's doubtfulness, "I can leave my body behind and go wherever I want within a certain distance. The only major downside to it is that I can't be here and in my body at the same time and I have limited awareness of what's happening around 'me'."

Understanding what Robyn was saying and in awe of it, LaCroix nodded. "How did you know what was happening? How did you know where to find me?"

"I sensed the Enforcers not long after you left. I had to wait until I could see where they were before I came here." Robyn looked away as if a sound had reached her ears that not even LaCroix's vampiric hearing could detect. "I have to go now, I've been gone a while and they're starting to get worried."

"I'll come and see you tonight, when the sun sets."

Robyn smiled thinly and shaking her head she placed her hand tenderly on LaCroix's cheek, "Go home Lucien. Go back to Toronto when night falls. I know you want to make me one of your kind but I find it hard enough to live every day feeling the pain I do, pain that you've felt tonight. I don't know if I could face eternity with it. Not just yet. I'm not saying that I'll never accept your offer but right now there's too much that I need to do. I don't know if I'm ready to leave this life behind yet."

LaCroix's jaw set as his eyes grew dark but he understood. She hadn't turned him down entirely but he refused to see her wither and die with age and he only hoped that if her life were to be swept away from her he'd know in time to be able to reverse her death and give her eternal life. He took her head in his hands and closing his eyes kissed her deeply.

When his eyes opened again she was gone.