And Barbie is thinking, almost distractedly, back to what it had been like for her to turn. The funny thing was, she did not remember any of it. She only managed to see what had happened on a CCTV camera recording years after the fact.

Someone else is entering the room: Raura. Her husband doesn't say anything, and only stays long enough to plant the device that will collect all of Ella's blood.

She severed a major artery on purpose. Three minutes in, and then she's sealing the wound with a press of her fingers. After that, she's bringing her own hand up to her fangs, and drawing Vitae from her own vein. Those drops, she places gently upon Ella's lips.

The change, after all of these preparations, will simply be strange. It also won't take more than an hour.