Bella stared at Levi for a full minute - almost an eternity considering how she processed time. "You can...you can read minds?" Her mind spun out for a few seconds, trying to reconcile what she now knew with what her mind fought to suppress.

She'd momentarily forgotten Vlad. Then he shifted, just a fraction, and before Levi could answer, or blink, she'd barreled into Vlad, grabbed him by the throat and pinned him to a pillar a foot above the ground. "Going somewhere? Besides hell, I mean."