"Cool.

" - can I have a hug first? Then I'll be good."

"Yeah of course." Hug. "Y'know, if anything happens to me there's more where I came from."

"I know. I am maybe slightly unclear on the timescales involved. But I know."

"Drop off Wishbone, go rob an art museum?"

"Sounds like a plan."

He drives. His headache improves as they drive.

In ten minutes the swordsman comes back to Michael's house.

Michael lets him in. "Can I get you anything to drink? Eat?"

"No, thank you. Where do you have her?"

"Downstairs." He walks across the room instead. "You can watch her on this video system."

"Ah." He observes her for a while. "What are you planning to do with her, then?"

"We're trying to figure out if there are options. Resealing the seal that broke, finding something not human she can feed off. There might not be. Probably isn't, honestly. But we have a little time to check."

He nods solemnly. "I'll stay until you've determined what you're going to do, then."

"All right. There's a spare room next to the one that you broke into earlier. The door code is 3583660906."

"You'll need to write it down. But - thank you."

"Of course. ...how did you come to be in the mummy-killing business? Do you happen to know if there are others like her out there?"

"It's not a business. I work on my grandfather's farm in Idaho, most of the time. It's a sacred duty that's been passed down from generation to generation in my family. My understanding is that there are others in the Andes, though only a very few have been found and excavated. I didn't really expect it to ever come up."

"Lord have mercy," he says softly. "She was conscious the whole time, you know."

" - I didn't. I'd have killed her sooner."

"Well, that's one approach to problem-solving."

"There is likely very little else to be done for them. But perhaps you'll find something."

"We'll at least try. Welcome to Sunnydale."

They drop Wishbone off and head on to the museum.

" - so do you know how to break into museums? I don't know how to break into museums. You should teach me to pick locks, that seems like a good thing to know how to do."

"That's a good idea but actually since we got a government escort tailing us we're going to break into the museum the really boring way where they show the night security staff their badge. Unless there's no night security staff, I guess the place was pretty deserted the day we picked her up."

"Ah, sensible. I would say that they probably have someone there, but they didn't even have any glass in front of the mummy, so, like, honestly who knows."