"Well, if I remember right," said Astrid, with an unpleasant twist in her stomach that made her feel glad she hadn't actually gotten to her soup yet, "that would have been a pretty serious offense."

That she would have jumped on in a heartbeat.

All the more reason to just ask, "What happened with the vampires?"

She would have thought that you knew it was bad if the vampires were better, but she also figured Mae would have thought vampires were better in a lot of cases.