Alastor raised his glass with a bemused smile, swirling the contents lazily. "Taking it slow, of course. Just enough to take the edge off the tension. Deer have two reactions to danger: running or freezing in place. I typically run during Extermination Day. Make it a bit of a game to bait the Exorcists and lead them towards targets of my choosing."

He then looked somewhat wistfully around the room.

"And last year I actually wasn't alone. I had a roommate when I first arrived. An angel from another world if you can believe it. You'd think we'd try to kill one another, but we kept each other entertained. Neither of us really needed sleep and back then Reverein had nothing happening at all after dark, so we'd sit and chat when one or both of us wasn't dreamwalking. A good thing, too, because I was just about climbing the walls last year. He helped distract me from the need to run from a threat that wasn't coming."