[Monster that he is, Vex has been around Bo and Kenzi long enough now to know this. That guilt that all seem prepared to carry with them, as if it is necessary to keep being a decent semblance of a human being. Maybe they're right, given he lacks both guilt, or decency, but he hates watching the girls in his life go through this and he'd rather not watch this woman go through it too.]

Yeah, it sucks when the assholes have a good point, huh? I try and do it often, just to get those pissed off looks.

[It's a bad sense of humor, but he's known since he was little that it is one of the few things to get him through his life all these years.]

Fae. As in, yes, fairies. Well that's the genus, I guess? Fae encompasses a lot. The specific kind that was slaughtered is a mesmer.

[He holds up his hand again though he doesn't use the ability this time.]

How we control people, how we feed, and a horrific and disgusting way to murder us slowly as well.