Violet smiles and nods. "I know how you feel. It's kind of the same with my power, except without the aging portion of it." She holds her hand out over the table. Where there would normally be a shadow, there isn't. "You see, how my power works is it feeds off shadows. Unfortunately I didn't know this and my power ate up almost all of my shadow." She sighs and sets her hand back down. "Without a shadow, a person dies. That's why all the myths have vampires not having shadows. And if my power eats up the rest of my shadow, I will die as well." She leans back in her chair and pulls out the vial around her neck. "That's why I have this. I collect shadows from people I kill or animals I kill, that way I don't have to feed off my own shadow." She grins. "Sorry, that took kind of a morbid turn..."