Saturday notes his shiver with a certain resignation; she's not sure why the flesh-eating bothers people more than the blood-drinking, but she does know that when HMHVV folk show up as characters in the trid, it's always vamps or banshees or something like that. It's eating essence either way, but for some reason people think blood is less freaky.

And anyway, ghouls can use the dead and vampires need the living; as far as she's concerned, that makes ghouls much easier to deal with. A body without a person inside is just meat.

She is aware that not everyone shares this view.

"That's - yeesh. I guess there's no way people don't use that to be shitheads, huh?"