He mostly takes this in stride. "When this country was founded we thought all its residents were human, and we weren't even great at making sure its laws extended to all of them. We've gotten better since then. It was a shock to learn there are hundreds of other species of people who have at least some members here, and that some of them like vampires are universally gleeful mass murderers and many of the others have terrifying superpowers. There are a lot of challenges involved in protecting our people when so many of the threats to them aren't ones we understand well. Tourism's great. Also you will frequently catch me making pained faces about it."

That's a nice speech. Cam's touched. "Sounds like an exciting job."

That's the right angle.

"I used to say I can sleep when I'm dead, but apparently we can't even count on that. Are there apsel governmental organizations that we should be reaching out to?"

"No, apsels are anarchists. I don't think you'd have a lot to say to a neighborhood association." That's a hilarious mental image though.

Anarchist absurdly powerful matter-generating demons, great. "Then we'll probably want to draft things everyone can read."

"Most of them are never going to come here, but sure, you could come up with some sort of general audiences announcement if you really want all the apsels to know what you're about." Angels and fairies aren't anarchists but Cam doesn't know as much about them, one thing at a time.

"Do I want that?"

"There are advantages and disadvantages. They will not appear uninvited but I have to admit we are hell on your infosec, if you have infosec."

"That has crossed my mind. Who invited you?"

"I'd rather not say." But if he ever needs him for anything he's still got the tracking device in his tailbone.

"I try not to stereotype more than is warranted but if they had fangs or looked like lawyers they probably did not mean well."

"Actually, neither!" Well, maybe he was a law student? Can't judge somebody's major by how on the ball they seem drunk.

"When did you get here?"

"Recently." ...what day of the week is it?

"Dug up some of Sunnydale's mysteries pretty fast. Admittedly the more conspicuous ones."

"Making things is very handy. Also my vampire tried to bite me. It didn't work."

"Yep, she mentioned that. Were you able to answer all your questions about vampires with your info-sec unfriendly powers already, or do you have questions we can answer?"

"I've skimmed -" He rattles off titles. "Plus I talked to Talon but I can't trust what she says too far, you know?"

He nods seriously. "There are vampires who haven't actually done anything gravely evil because it turned out to be inconvenient or a bad idea, but..."

Long pause while he contemplates phrasing. "There aren't any I'd trust."

"It does seem to be something of an occupational hazard. I've only met the one socially. Why are they like that?"

"'Why's not really my department. A persistent feature of the more-informed folk explanations is that they don't have a soul, and there's reputedly one vampire who got his soul back and was then struck with remorse, so there's that. They all score very poorly on tests of affective empathy. Many of them express an active desire to do evil things, usually with reasons like 'because I'm a monster' or 'it'll be fun'.  Poor impulse control and somewhat impaired cognitive empathy. too."

"Huh. Any hope of scaling the put-the-soul-back thing, ideally before there's much to be remorseful about?"

"A gypsy curse laid on the vampire in question a hundred years ago; the details of the spell itself are lost though I suppose maybe you could find them, and if he ever experiences true happiness he loses his soul again. There's probably a solution somewhere in that space but it'll take some refining."

"It does not sound like a good one point oh release in that form," Cam acknowledges.