Hope was, as far as Drusilla was concerned, a strange thing. A human thing. She didn't hope that things would be better or that things would change. She knew. It was far more convenient that way.

"Read the stars," she suggested, "They forgot how to lie a long time ago."

But she had a feeling that Katherine would try to change what she saw if she really didn't like it. That wasn't how it worked. That only paved the way to that future.