Neal joining Emvianyí is the funniest fucking thing ever.
We call Neal "ordinary guy mcnormalson" for a reason. This kid is 22 and painfully average, right down to the standard low self esteem. Through a series of very boring unacknowledged events this kid starts to bend, and when he discovers he can gain power through eating a pegasus he breaks, joining Emvianyí in her search with little to no hesitation.
Meanwhile Emvianyí is a 612yo concubine barely keeping her matter together by eating humans and concubines alike, searching for the pegasi to achieve true immortality. She is not the standard in any way, shape, or form. Only a small handful of other concubines have sought out the pegasi for immortality, its really not something many concubines are crazy enough to want, especially after living a full 500 years of life.
How did these two even meet? Funny thing. Neal was unknowingly friends with a few too many concubines at a certain nightclub, and with one coworker named Quarren Martin snooping around the vampires and getting in Viva's business, it really is only natural that it would draw the cannibal's attention when she came to town