[Doc Faustus]

Bark took a flask from his jacket, liquor that could probably be used to refinish a table. "Chantal and I were both victims of Operation Nessuno. The name's Italian. Means noone. Noone knows, noone can help you, and when they're done with you, you're noone. Another mouth to fill with flesh, another pair of fangs to drink folks dry. Chantal's what Nessuno calls Sanguiform B, clinically dead, but in need of blood to live. What you saw, that creature is type C Variant. Type C variant is what's called a PRESS: Psychoreactive Extranormal Shapeshifter. You get this?" Tristan wanted to nod.