"I don't know if I can explain it," she said. "It's like...they, more than any other vampire, experiences the sense that anything is possible."

Probably because the New World, unlike the old one, wasn't en-mired in tradition and The Way of Things. The world was still taking shape and still figuring out what it was. Which meant that all the vampires there were doing the same.

"They're all a lot younger too," she added. "You know how young people are."

Diana knew. She desperately wanted to feel that way.