"I'm not sure," says Amariah. "I mean... Golden and Stella have the same history up until they were seventeen, but they found completely different stuff when they moved to Forks, vampires versus wishcoins. Then there's me and Angela who weren't even human to start out. And Shell Bell's from Earth where Angela might not be, but even Shell Bell's from way in the future, and so are Shell Bell's Sherlock and Tony. The other Sherlock and Tony seem to have been from nearer by you. They had vampires, which seem at least more like the local kind than like Golden's or some other sort. That Tony described it as, what was it -"

"We were talking about souls," Path says, "and he said that on his world if you get turned into a vampire you become a people-eating asshole version of you."