"Wow, just going to the million dollar question, aren't you?" He smiles at that though, knowing that she can't even imagine how much of a can of worms that question is.

"My parents... They suffered a loss," he says, thinking that doesn't even begin to cover it. Not when a thousand years later it still is the turning point of their family's existence. "And in trying to assure it never happened again, they stripped me of my witchcraft."

Kol has never so easily talked about it before, especially not with anyone that didn't have a clue that he was a vampire because of what his parents did. But there's no many that can begin to understand, either. Not in his mind. Not unless they've lost that as well.

It just feels so close to the surface feeling deadened without the senses he's had for years.