[ Walking steadily away from the role of Maker and all it entails, Ed's able to settle into the comfort of Izzy's presence in his wake like slipping into an old jacket, perfectly fit with age and worn soft on the inside. ]

Besides the fact that your fragile human body wouldn't do well drinking so much blood all at once, and that being drained of all my blood would leave me basically defenseless? The process of Becoming was decided by vampires much older and more dangerous than the rest. Wouldn't do well for us to draw their attention.

[ The Council in particular, he means. Revar and the rest, who were watching the proceedings like circling sharks, as they always do, tasting the blood in the water, looking for injured and weak creatures to gobble up. ]