"Without school? A few days, so I should probably hang out in a hoodie and bandana at first."

"That sounds like an effective stopgap.  ...It occurs to me that we don't know when if ever the Line and Sinker closes.  But we won't need to keep watch during daylight hours, at least."

"And I can just sleep in the day now that I'm not in school."

"Indeed.  When are you prepared to start your stakeout?"

"Could do tonight."

"I'll stand by for you again, if that's agreeable."

"Is. Thanks, G-man."

"Of course.  Do you still prefer me to come running as soon as my phone rings, or will you want to be able to keep lines of communication open?"

"Lines of communication, maybe."

"Very well.  I think that's everything.  We'll move out tonight."

"Gotcha."

That night, and indeed the next several nights, find her perched on top of an adjacent warehouse, watching the disguised cannibals come and go.  She recognizes the boy she met there on her last visit - he's a frequent visitor, showing up almost every day - but it's a couple days before Vanessa's henchman shows himself: Walter Galbraith, dressed in a black pinstripe suit over a vest and silk dress shirt that are both bright red, with an eyepatch over his right eye that rumor has it he does not actually need.

She's finished her black spider suit by now so is lurking in style. Also wow evil aesthetic much.

She follows him when he leaves. Stealthily. Like a very large spider.

He moves at a leisurely pace toward his black and stylish car.

Right.

She texts Giles information about the car, as well as a grainy picture.

heading north?  will pick you up and follow

She confirms the car's direction, then updates Giles.

Giles' car brakes next to her warehouse, and the passenger side door opens.

She slides in.

He takes off in pursuit.

"Once we get out of the industrial district we can follow closer," he says.  "I imagine we'll have some time, then, before he realizes he's being followed.  Your crossbow is in the backseat, if it comes to that."

"Here's hoping, too." Still, she acquires the crossbow. Not that she's intending to use it for anything other than intimidation or shooting out tires.

He follows, at a distance - even outside of the sprawl of warehouses traffic is light enough that he doesn't want to get too close.

Galbraith leads them through a residential district, toward a small graveyard on the opposite side of town from the Memorial Park.

She'll follow him into it on foot if Giles doesn't object, though she keeps out of his sight as best she can. She wants to know where in it he's going...

He lets her go.  "Good luck."

Black Spidey Suit serves her well; she manages to escape notice by even vampire vision.  Galbraith strides importantly into what looks like the stone entrance to a burial vault.