The older vampire had no doubts that Sebastian would answer the bid for an audience. It would appear as uncouth if he did not. That was the station he now found himself in and one that Anna-Marie knew very well even after all this time. The sound of dress shoes against the marble floor drew her attention from the chess set and to the very man she had come to see. It was different seeing him like this but also eased her knowing he did well. That compliment drifted easily from her lips.

And there was the question from him which she had expected. How very difficult of a question that was. Her piercing blues took a moment to glance around, a hand in a small sweeping gesture, "It appears I cannot give you what you do not already have." Anna's own assets were of no use to Sebastian seeing as he had accumulated his own over the years and married into even greater. With a soft sigh, Anna-Marie turned the queen she had been holding between her fingers. She turned now, gently replacing it back on the board, "There is this...concept in certain human gatherings. They say by going through certain steps that the individual will finally be able to heal- to come to terms with their past and their present." Anna's gaze fixated upon Sebastian once more. "The bond a sire has to their childe can be felt across the world. It's something I could never forget, nor something I ever wished to feel, and especially not twice. I would not wish this life on anyone- I should have died long ago with my family...though you know as well as I that the drive for survival is a vicious thing. When it became clear what had happened, I came back to Sacro to see you."

Anna realized that she was being rather long winded but it had been quite some time since she had been lucid enough to hold a conversation. "The details are a bit fuzzy but I do know that it was never the intention to harm you nor to Turn you and for that I can never amend for. So, I suppose what I come here for today is simply to look upon you with a...sober mind." Although the protective wall her mind had entrapped her consciousness in hadn't been due to substance abuse, her behavior wasn't how she behaved after several centuries honing her control. "And perhaps one day you could look upon Belrose Manor as an ally should you ever need it."