Claws are built to flense and cut, and fangs exist to rip and tear. Typically, this truth was intended for flesh filled to the brim with life, but Valentina was quickly discovering how little that actually mattered. As it turned out, ethereal and transmaterial flesh infused with necromantic energy served just as well as its living equivalent, at least in a pinch, and now the vampiress was shredding through ghostly lamias and drinking their incorporeal flesh like it was ambrosia.