Bella slips into the school by a side door; she just saw a thing and she thinks she's seen it in a book before and thinks it's supposed to be mostly harmless but before she wakes Giles up over probably nothing or kills a likely neutral demon she wants to check.
And she pushes into the library.
And off she goes, and she sleeps like a rock and misses her first two classes but is there the following sunset.
"We'll see. The goal is to retrieve Miles's; what happens to mine is totally inconsequential next to that."
"Arthur Mallory, Asshat, has not been whisked away from jail via Watcher bureaucratic magic or anything," she mentions, "which I had worried about a bit."
"Apparently they yoinked you because they like to find vampires who are weird in some way and lock them up with de-powered recently-eighteen Slayers as an extremely fucked up test of Slayer wits."
Mark contemplates this.
"Familiar management style," is his conclusion. "If you want to kill them all, I'm game."
"If they take issue with my puzzle solution there might be a problem but I don't think I'll wind up killing them all, I mean, one of them is Giles," she says. "...You say things like 'if you want to kill them all I'm game' when you have a soul?"
He looks thoughtful.
"Father, on the other hand? Galactic conqueror."
"There aren't many vampire conquerors per se, it's mostly mayhem, destruction, etcetera."