‘Nobody could hurt him, not even the glowing stone figure he’d seen in the shadows, the one so hard and so old he looked like the Golem of legend. What an eerie thing that was, that stone one staring down at the wounded mortal who lay with her neck broken, the one with the red hair who looked like the twins in the dream.’

Daniel’s reaction to Khayman is understandable. For any young immortal, Khayman must appear a little frightening. Daniel showed a keen interest in Khayman in the Night Island indicating that they may have spent some time together after the vampires separated. This is possible since we are unsure of what Daniel did next.

'Khayman sat in the downstairs study talking with Daniel now, Daniel who liked to let the hunger build, Daniel who wanted to know all about what it had been like in ancient Miletus and Athens and Troy.'