Lilah's main impressions of Sloane at the charity event had been not too tall and probably very rich or very powerful from the way Linwood's chatting him up. Which, at that particular event, had not made him stand out -- and there had been other things on Lilah's mind, such as keeping a moody vampire from crashing the party and ruining all her hard work.

Now, though, as Sloane stands and welcomes her, she remembers something else, a quality that warned her to back away and invited her to come closer, at the same time. It was in his smile, a look edged with a trace of secret amusement. It was as though he knew something that no one else in the room did. It's not far from the way she imagines she might have looked the moment before taking Linwood's head off.

Now Sloane actually mentions the man, who Lilah hasn't thought of in ages, and Lilah puts on a secret smile of her own. "Linwood wasn't so bad. I mean he did tend to go on and on, and sometimes it was enough to make you want to cut his throat. Figuratively speaking." Here she resists raising a hand to the red scarf tied at her own neck. Instead, she lowers her voice and says, with a look of grave concern, "One shouldn't speak ill of the dead." Especially not the ones you killed. It seems a bit like gloating. Though who is Lilah kidding. She likes gloating.