Katherine's gaze dropped. She knew she'd let the implication be there, that she was normal, just a girl, like he was just a boy, except that wasn't quite true. She didn't know how to be one, even, but she was trying. And she didn't want to tell him that, make him...whatever if he realized just how not normal she was.

"Hunters definitely don't count as normal, even if they are just human." She shuddered a little, unable to stop that deeply instilled reaction of centuries.