If it takes as long as the previous one did, however, it should be about time for them to stop bothering Norma at her place.

It doesn't actually take a whole couple of hours to disappear! Takes about twenty minutes, though.

"Well that's interesting. Maybe we should've done a larger patch."

"Yeah, maybe," he says. "How's the other one coming along?"

It doesn't seem to have changed.

"It's not."

"And we didn't get any black hair dye so I might be stuck with this tomorrow, woo!" (Sigh.)

"We could go get some, or—is there something that, like, removes hair dye?"

"… No, don't think so? Not unless it's a spell. You can bleach your hair and stick more dye over it, I think, or that might be what you're not supposed to do because it damages your hair, but I don't think it's the same as nail varnish remover or whatever."

His hair changes to a bright red. "I don't need that."

"I mean, you could just re-dye my hair black– no, you couldn't, or maybe you could, not sure if we tested that, ugh. It might interact weirdly if you dye my hair a color I want it to be from a color I don't want it to be, seeing as how it did that streak thing."

"Oh yeah good test, if by tomorrow it's still red we could try that."

"And I will text you tomorrow morning so you can come and do it before I go to school, yes?"

"Sure. Ooor you could sleep over at my place."

He raises an eyebrow. "But what would my father think, oh dear."

"Hopefully he won't think too much about it."

He rolls his eyes. Then notices what he did and rolls his eyes again and gets out his phone. "Sure, sounds good."

"Are there any more experiments to run?"

"I can't think of any right now," he shrugs.

"Then we could call it an evening and go? I'm not sure how much longer Norma's gonna spend with Eva."

"Sounds good."

"I'm gonna stay around I think."

And Norma will continue training her Slayer for as long as she wants to. Or until like eleven, whichever happens first.

Eva is up for training as long as Norma is up for it – this is important.

Off they go, then.

And eventually they arrive at Sadde's place.

"You hungry?"