"Mediation helps one learn to control their own mind.  I'm saying that I could probably keep my thoughts off of the truth, were we to be confronted by Blackvayne, even if he could read my mind."  Even as she spoke the words, her confidence in them was not as strong as she hoped.  Blackvayne was a tricky creature and now she knew he was likely more cunning than she realized.  Still, it was not a bridge that they currently had to cross, so it was not something she had to face just yet.<br/><br/>"I would say that depends on what the witches or humans lust for.  Anyone can be corrupted by a need for power and that can grow to the point that it can't be satisfied...but ultimately, I guess you're right.  Witches, werewolves and humans don't have to eat other humans to survive."  Blackvayne had killed many and enslaved others.  Some of the women he kept around him were simply there to satisfy his needs.  They had no life outside of it.  He had tried to convince Vara to allow him to "taste" her a time or two, but she had always wiggled her way out of the situation.  Still, it was not as if she could run to the witches and claim sanctuary.  They shunned any wolf they considered to be a traitor unless they submitted to re-programming.<br/><br/>"If they can't be saved, then I guess we just survive.  We get out of there, and I figure out a way to get you back in.  Hell, Blackvayne might even reward them for their loyalty.   They live near his...castle.  A small home on the farmlands just to the west.  There are plenty ways to get into his territory and inside of his walls, most are guarded by wolves and other lesser vampires.  If you have some way to mask our scent, then they might as well be blind to us..."