Just as Caius had guessed, the Arousal charge within the blood he drank from the canister was negligible. Still, his blood was ready to snap up any bit of Evolutionary charge it could get to keep filling his meter to completion.
Before that happened though, Caius's fangs pierced Anne's neck and as expected, the charge within was stronger. While it was where near the peak it could be at once she was—as Arlette had so succinctly put it—properly motivated, it was still miles beyond that of the canister.
And that seemed to be a major factor in what happened next.
Before the blood from the canister got absorbed, the one from Anne's neck found it, supplying it with the Arousal charge quality it lacked.
As Caius felt every drop of Anne's blood now in his system get brought up to the same level of Evolutionary charge he got from Anne's neck, he finally truly understood the chain-link metaphor.
