Kat grins. "That's him! He got involuntarily Embraced like me—and, in fact, we have the same Sire. Only for him, it happened 1,000 years ago. He and one of my Guardians, Zel, moved into the flat directly below us."

"So the PTBs apparently decided that the best person to protect a psychically-vulnerable young Kindred is a magically-inclined, old, and powerful Kindred," Yugi adds.