Joana didn’t need any more explaining to understand why Marylin had chosen John. She missed her human life because she had a husband whom she was happy with; and it must have killed her when she found out that she would have to leave her husband and her family, and live as a lonely vampire for the rest of her life.

Dana, upon reading her thoughts, said to her.

“Marylin was never lonely here. She had me, Derick, Edmund and Hillary.”

“I know she did, but you can’t replace the happiness you will feel when you have a family with that of being in a coven. You probably didn’t know...