BLOODBOUND: THE LAST MATE
she said, "and what he tells me will be shaped by that waiting. I want the account of someone who has observed it from outside."
"Reasonable," Sable said. He considered. "The vampire bonding ceremony — the blood oath — is a covenant between two individuals that operates on the blood level. It is not symbolic. It creates a connection that is physiological and spiritual simultaneously, that allows each partner to sense the other's presence, health, and emotional state at significant distance." He paused. "For a vampire bonding with another vampire, the ceremony is profound but not unprecedented. The texts describe it as a deepening of what already exists — love that has found its physical foun