He sat up to be next to her.  Waking up further, he saw in the dim light that she was bothered.<br/><br/>"He came to you in a dream?" Geraint said.  He'd heard that vampires came to people in dreams, but he didn't know if they were true dreams or just nightmares.  He'd dreamed of vampires, too, because they were frightening and much of his work revolved around thwarting them or fighting their lesser kind.  "Are you sure... I don't know how this works, but you're upset.  A lot has happened.  Could this be your anger and worry and grief making a powerful dream?  If you say it's real, I believe you, but that's a lot to take in."<br/><br/>Because, of course, he didn't want to send Vara back to Blackvayne and he didn't want to go himself.  If the dream was just a dream, then going back would probably be suicide for them both.  If the dream was a true sending, well, it could be suicide, it wasn't like vampires had a compunction against lying, but that required a different strategy.<br/><br/>"And I thought we'd already sorted out the question of 'are we together.'  We are.  We're in this together."