"He's a piece of shit," Daisy says simply, because it's true. "Just happened to be a piece of shit I had stuff in common with. The relationship between those vampires and the beast isn't the same as the Hunt, but it's close enough. Controlling it didn't stop him being a real wanker, though."

In some ways, it's also a lesson that just controlling your bestial urges doesn't make you a better person in itself. Erik has self-control and Erik was still an evil bastard. Daisy reaching for self-control comes on the back of the progress she's made as a person, but she's still not all the way there on either front.

"Might've gone different if dying wouldn't throw me back to the wolves. Or if I wasn't on murder break."