Seventeen & Maldusk: A Supernatural Soap Opera

Reuben really likes order and predictability, doesn’t he? I bet he’s using those frameworks to keep himself in check, and if everything around him is under control, then he can keep himself under control, too. I wonder what “the other site” is and at the same time I really, really don’t want to know. The modern world sure has its conveniences for not-wanting-to-rampage, self-controlling vampires. I still wonder how Reuben came to be a vampire in the first place, too.

Hang on. Haven’t we seen that “homeless girl” before? And she’s right outside of Ion’s apartment? Hoo boy…

Oh, Reuben. Unless he willingly chose to become a vampire, and it doesn’t seem like he did, what he’s become (and what he’s fighting so hard to repress) is not on him. He’s just been dealt a bad hand and has to live with it. On a side note, I also thought at first that the girls were checking how their assailant was doing, rather than trying to empty his pockets. ? Oof, I feel you there, Reuben. Getting the right words out is hard sometimes. Especially if you’re worried you’ll mess it up.

Oh dear. That’s not good. Blondie didn’t look like the type who’d just let something like this slide, either. And Reuben works at the police office. That’s going to come back to bite him, isn’t it?