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Maybe it should be more about Kate trying to figure out why she was named Lupa...she should be the one who care about such I think. I suppose Lupa has cut contact with her parents due to her undead nature and if they never told her the background of the name you could have Kate decide to go on a mission on herself to find out the background of the name. It may sound weird that Lupa does not know the reason for her name, but I actually think it is fairly realistic. My wife has a very unique name but her parents have no recollection of why they choose this name...weirdly they can explain the middle name that is fairly mundane but somehow they forgot the story about the unusual name.

Kizurial: “You do realize who Shondra Jackson is, do you not?” Azrael: “...No. Not at all. Should I?” That’s actually kind of a staple of parallel realities; they can be extremely similar, save for a few small changes. Actually that is pretty funny. I just somehow didn’t see it while reading. Time for me to get nerdy. There’s a Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition supplement called the Book of Exalted Deeds, and it was a supplement for noble heroes, just as its counterpart, the Book of Vile Darkness, was for DMs to design particularly nasty villains (that second one gets a little edgelordy at points). At any rate, the reason I bring it up is that BoED contains some minor Good deities, and one of them is Lastai, “the goddess of pleasure, love and passion.” Lastai teaches that sexual pleasure is meant to be enjoyed, but with none of the malign elements that evil beings might add on. While there are sins associated with sex (adultery, abuse, rape) sex itself isn’t sinful, and I imagine that Chastia and others like her may have been meant to be more like Lastai: envoys of sexual intimacy as an expression of love and affection without any form of abuse or cruelty. It would explain both Shannon’s intense enjoyment of sex and her bubbly personality and kindness to those around her. I mean, I get it, nobody knows anything about God; faith wouldn’t be a thing if everyone just knew, but I do think that a sadistic monotheistic deity, while potentially consistent with the letter of the sacred texts, is inconsistent with their spirit.

Please note that I don’t necessarily mean the off scene chapter 3 as a bad thing, but I thought it worth to mention since a casual reader might not realize you will return to the slumber party. Speaking about something else...why did you decide that Lupa would be the vampire and not the werewolf? When you do Lupas story you need to do something about the name...