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Ari is patrolling. Again. It's surprising how frequently someone can be found doing something when he does it every night.
Another quiet night. Jeez. There must be a convention in Sacramento or something.
(Ari makes a mental note to see if there's actually a convention in Sacramento that he could infect with Qik'thx Plague or something. That'd be convenient. Such things have been known to happen.)
Patrol, patrol, patrol.
rockdove
summa-iniuria
There is a girl out for a walk. She doesn't appear to be a vampire or any obvious kind of half-demon, and she doesn't have the purposeful stride of a fellow patroller.
rockdove
Oh hey! New kid! Who's going to get herself eaten!
He casually falls into step with her. "Awfully late to go out walking, huh? This a grocery run or something?"
He casually falls into step with her. "Awfully late to go out walking, huh? This a grocery run or something?"
rockdove
"Can't fault that. But, you know, this place gets kinda dangerous after dark. I know it's hard to believe, but..."
rockdove
"Um. So. Yeah. If you need fresh air, there's always, like, meditating in your backyard? I never really got the hang of meditation, but I'm kind of..." He gestures vaguely to himself. "Untranquil."
rockdove
"That's a pity then. You could pick up some martial arts katas or something? Get the blood flowing, without the potentially getting the blood flowing out of you."
rockdove
"I generally like people to stay alive rather than dead, yeah. Kind of a thing."
rockdove
"...I'm not sure how you're sure of that. I'm really not joking about the death thing, you understand. Teenagers aren't exempt."
rockdove
"You're a teenaged girl, what is there to-"
She is a teenaged girl.
A teenaged girl with remarkably little concern for her bodily integrity.
"...You're fucking kidding me."
She is a teenaged girl.
A teenaged girl with remarkably little concern for her bodily integrity.
"...You're fucking kidding me."
rockdove
"I don't mean to be rude, it's just that I'm kind of doing a thing, keeping the vampires honest and all that, and I don't need them slain. So we're kind of at cross purposes here. Unless you've taken it on yourself to revolutionize the Vampire Slayer industry to not involve vampire slaying?"
summa-iniuria
"Well, you'll notice I haven't burned down the blood brothel. 'Is a vampire' is not that great an approximation of 'needs to be killed immediately', as far as I can tell. There's plenty of overlap, but it's very possible to be one thing and not the other."
rockdove
"Thanks for that; the brothel's a major success story. You seem a lot more reasonable than I'd expect from a Slayer."
summa-iniuria
"Are we known for being unreasonable? I haven't had the job for long."
rockdove
"More the support staff. The Council's a bit... zero-tolerance. Stab first, ask questions of next of kin before stabbing them, kind of thing. And a lot of the potential Slayers get secreted away to training facilities by them early on, so they end up as mini-Watchers themselves."
rockdove
"Mentioning that you knew about the bite shop and hadn't set fire to it, really. The Watcherspawn don't really do subtle."