It was juuust obvious enough for even me to pick up on it.

[ Which you had to be, for someone like her to pick up on that kind of thing. She was so separated from how involved the vampire courts were with the rest of society, and it might've stayed that way if she wasn't caught in the Finding. ]

From what I can tell? Until we all have a maker, it'll continue. Which, with how many of us there are, could be a little while.