"Well- " Rose made a little bit of a face. "They're not like saints or anything. But they can't defend themselves, and they have a lot of weaknesses. It'd be wrong not to protect them."

"And technically I'm not promised until graduation," she pointed out. "I'll be eighteen by then, and, yeah, kinda the same. Swearing to give my life to the Queen and Moroi."

Other than the fact she'd been trained for it since she was five, totally the same. Really.