Hm. In general it's best to have as many potentially useful spell components on hand as you can, because sometimes ridiculous things happen, and then you end up needing spells that you never would have considered plausibly relevant, but - spells that specifically require vampires are rare and generally only useful for other vampires. If we did need them for a spell I suppose it'd be more likely that their invulnerability happened to be convenient for something that would kill a human. I suppose the mental opacity might have some sort of mystical application.

But nothing immediately comes to mind.

Thank you. 

And to Ryan, I'm going to have the vampires killed. Do you want to observe this so you don't have to trust me on it?

Mixed feelings about people being killed to impress me, honestly.

You weren't a factor in this decision, though I wouldn't have asked you to watch if you hadn't mentioned it was a concern of yours.

I'll be there. 

Elsewhere, Drusilla suddenly becomes very upset.

"No! No, no, no, I don't like this game at all, I don't!"

"What is it, baby?"

"Fairies with knives, knives all in a row, wicked, wicked fairies - "

The guards at the door draw bows. More of them are arriving. "Calm down," someone says, a bit unhappily.

Drusilla drops low to the ground and hisses at them. "Snakes in the woodshed, come to kill all the children at play. Writhing in a great big tangle. Wicked."

"Sorry," someone says. 

They fire.

They're not amazing at defending themselves from arrows shot into an enclosed space. Two vampires dust.

Alex swings a hammer harder than required for the construction work they're doing.

You OK?

Yeah.

They decided to kill Spike and Dru.

Ah.

- I'll just. Be over here being sad and also repeatedly reminding myself that it's not like we haven't killed lots of vampires ourselves.

But - sigh.

On some level I knew - I mean, it's the right call. But - I tried so hard and I won and I got everyone here safe and now they're dead anyway and Ryan's, well, if he weren't here the world would be worse but my life would be a lot better.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

Don't you apologize to me, that's just obviously ridiculous.

Well - yeah, but - I'm sorry the world's broken. I'd make it be not broken if I could.

We're doing our very best.

Yeah. I guess. We're - I guess.

 I can't think of any good names for a god-slayer baby who's a girl. I thought of lots of names for boy god-slayer babies, but I can't think of anything for a girl. I dunno if they're gonna exist or if I get to pick a name anyway, but I feel like good names've got to exist and like I should be able to think of them.

The Elf-princess of legend who fought Melkor was called Lúthien Tinuviel. She's your great-great-great-great grandsomething, probably. But she hasn't done it yet, so it'd come across a bit weird.