Safe enough for the immediate future. Mayerling lets himself focus more on the information Sharon shares. So little time here, and events are afoot. Terrible ones. He needs to know more. He cannot assume their definition of people excludes vampires (since they are themselves not vampires, the few they witnessed).

"Last year," Mayerling notes thoughtfully. Sharon has clearly been here longer than him but less than a year. That means these zealots have not been harvesting people notably in Trench during the time she has been here. She would mention otherwise.

"Perhaps we—the harvest—are not yet ripe," Mayerling suggests, whatever that means in the zealots' minds. Another subject matter to explore in the archives.

He glances at her hands, not because spilled blood is a temptation (though it is) but because it draws attention to the fact she is a Sleeper. Like him. Like the zealots. "Did you know they are Sleepers, at least in part?" he asks. The ones they saw.