"The Endless Echoes Clan has a great deal in common with bats," Nyrielle explained. "My teacher also has a connection to bats that comes from his power as a vampire rather than his nature as a member of the Endless Echoes Clan. Let me back up a step and I can explain better," she said.
"True Vampires are like witches in a way. I don't want you to think that it's entirely the same, but it helps to provide a way of looking at the world. You have a connection to trees and the forest. That's the part of nature that defines your witchcraft. Every person who is born a witch the way you were embodies some facet of nature."
"Then, the Mother of Thorns embodies things that are… prickly?" Ashlynn asked.
"I'll leave it to her to explain her own domain," Nyrielle said, not wanting to wander off track. "What I'm trying to say is that, just as witches embody a facet of nature, True Vampires embody a facet of death."
