Hee. I know what you mean -- I had made a note back after I wrote chapter 12 to do the blood portal thing, and then promptly forgot about it (how, I have no idea. How does one forget something like that?). Luckily, I happened upon said note before starting this chapter.

The adults' reactions are hard for Dawn to see, because she can't imagine a world where they'd think she was lying, or worse, that she had been told things by crazy people. Which is how Anita et al are leaning at this point. But all in those undercurrents that Dawn sees but doesn't process.

And I don't get wedding etiquette either, so I feel your pain.