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I really have to come up with a better title for Q&A sessions than brain-picking. Regardless of that, I'm back with a new round of questions, thoughtfully posted by readers. If you're aching and yearning to have an answer to a particular questions, please do post it-there will be one more day of pickage this week.

 And now, let's dive into the dark, murky depths that make up my brain!

Question 1: If a beloved's dark one dies, is she still immortal?

Yes, she is. However, if she's completed the whole Joining process, it's not terribly likely that she'd survive overly long without her vamp-not because she couldn't survive, but because she would be so bound to grief, it would be hard for her to go on.

Now, you may say, what if she had kids? Wouldn't she want to survive for them? The answer is that yes, love for her family would probably go far to making life tolerable. But she would still grieve her lost love.