him nuts? * * Actually, this one's pretty easy to explain. Think of the bronze shell as a sensory deprivation chamber...with no outside influence, time gets elongated and every moment stuck inside your own head isn't a fun one. * Problem is, he escaped the bronze prison in the middle of You Suck, got time to come back to his senses and seemed relatively sane at the end of the book when reunited with his eldest "children". One just have to wonder what caused him to get all animalistic that younger vampires imprisoned him before Bite Me takes place. Blue's death, maybe?