Well. That was unexpected. Artemis was usually quite good at pegging a Cainite's clan on her first or second try. It was bad enough she'd guessed wrong. But to have never heard of the Usurpers? She would never have taken him for a neonate.

She checked his aura again. Swirling even more than before. But not a Thin Blood. Definitely not a dhampir.

Pursing her lips, she slowly started to walk, making a wide circle around him. And then another. And another still.

"You can't figure him out, can you?" Papa taunted her.

"Shut up," she told him again. And to her mysterious, new friend, she continued, "Are you alive or dead? Your aura looks dead, but I'm finding you most puzzling."