Too bad for a teenage wolf

"Would you be willing to tell me why the hell your shadow vampire was tailing Feldman?"

"Perhaps we merely wanted to keep an eye on the diviner," Nataraja said.

I pretended to consider it. "No. I don't buy it. Keeping a vamp in the field is too expensive for casual surveillance."

"We have nothing further to discuss," Nataraja said.

"A pleasure seeing you, too," I said.

"Pulisic, escort the Order representative out of our territory." Nataraja grimaced.

"We wouldn't want anything to happen to her. I simply couldn't bear it."

Pulisic gave me an odd look and walked out with us, leaving Rowena and Nataraja behind.

As soon as we were out of Nate's earshot, I stopped. "You don't really have to escort me."

"But I do."

"In that case I have a question." Pulisic looked at me.

"If I were to taint a living animal with necromantic magic, how would I do it?"

"By taint you mean… ?"

There was no way out of this question without giving myself away. I was too stupid for this job.