"Well, see if you can't cook up something tasty when you turn," Addy says.

"He doesn't want to," says Nathan quietly.

"Well," says Addy, "then when he leaves you all alone see if you can go Marcus's route instead of Jasper's or just offing yourself, all right, and then you can sit in a room in the basement and I can visit you on Tuesdays with cups of blood and we can still use the timer?"

"I'll see what I can do," says Nathan cheerlessly.