River knew just how dangerous it was to expose this news. The reason they had been hunted by Baron Nester's forces was exactly because Pearl was the last remnant from the Sunborne family. What should have been a glorious inheritance for her had now become the noose that was tightly bound around her neck, threatening to take her life at the slightest slip up.
In fact, mentioning it now most definitely assured that the Baron's forces which had surely been looking for them would soon hear news of them. River and Pearl may be forced to leave the Guest House and go back on the run.
Yet those were all things that needed to be considered in the future. For now, should the vampire stick his teeth into Pearl, all that would be pointless. Only by surviving now could they worry about the concerns for later.
