"I guess you probably have a Watcher anyway, though. Kind of mandatory, or so I'm told. What's that like?"

"It could certainly be worse."

"Very likely! I've had run-ins with Watchers who made Torquemada look like Officer Friendly. And it's not like they're the rule, but they're less of an exception than I'd like."

"I get along just fine with mine."

"Seems reasonable. How have you been handling things so far?"

Ari pulls out his phone and, after some back-scrolling, comes up with a neatly color-coded map and hands the phone over. "Try not to swipe to any other photos. Anyway, a friend of mine came up with a set of routes. I pick one at random and patrol that way. Way I'm thinking, maybe we'd take it from opposite ends and meet up in the middle, tell each other anything suspicious we may have seen?"

"Ooh, colour-coded. I like your friend already. Also, I want a copy of this map. What route were you thinking of taking this time?"

He points out his route. It is a reasonable route for the purpose of canvassing a moderately sized suburb, which, conveniently, Sunnydale is.

"Sally's great, yeah. Color-coding is her passion. And if you want to give me your number I can text you it, and also call you up if something desperately needs Slaying."

"Sounds like a plan," she says agreeably, and she gives him her number.