slate attacked elaine

She shook her head. "Not much to tell. I spoke with Mab and then with Maeve. I was on my way back to my hotel and someone jumped me in the parking lot. I was able to slip most of his first strike and called up enough fire to drive him away. Then I found your car."
"Why did you come to me?" I asked.
"Because I didn't know who did it, Harry. And I don't trust anyone else in this town."
My throat got a little tight. I borrowed her coffee to wash down the bacon. "It was Lloyd Slate."
Elaine's eyes widened. "The Winter Knight. How do you know?"
"While I was with Maeve, he came in carrying a knife in a box, and he'd been burned. It was coated in dried blood. Maeve was pretty furious that it wasn't any good to her."
Lines appeared between her eyebrows. "Slate ... he was fetching my blood for her so that she could work a spell on me." She tried to cover it, but I saw her shiver. "He probably tailed me out of that party. Thank the stars I used fire."


Summer Knight Chapter 24, Page 285-286