"I think I just want a place with, like, good public schools? And jobs? And not very many vampires."

"Public schools kind of always suck."

"About half of all U.S. counties had no murders last year! There are big parts of the country that are entirely vampire-free. Maybe she could teach at a school, Tyelco, then it wouldn't have to suck."

"Yeah, that might work. Or - what's the thing where there's a special teacher for one specific disabled kid, she'd be good at that, or the librarian. She should be a school librarian."

"I don't have, like, a degree or anything."

"Do you want one?"

"Uh. I - kinda barely made it through high school and probably need to be working?"

"No I mean, like, whatever identity we set you up with can have a degree if you'd like them to."

"That seems like - I don't know how to do anything. Besides, uh, I guess nobody's killed me for being a terrible secretary yet."

"I'm pretty sure school librarian is like a secretary except you have to think that children should appreciate books, and help them find them, and use the atrocious inhumane disgusting book organization system that humans have."

"You sound racist when you say things like that."

"I like humans better than you do! It's just that their book organization system is horrible."

"I like humans a lot!"

He waves his hands frustratedly. "I just mean that it's not racist to say that they messed up at one particular thing. We have, also, messed up at some things."

"Just not book organization systems," he calls from his table in the corner.

"Yeah, see, that's what I mean."

She is not actually very confident that she can hold down any sort of decent job when her life is not being implicitly threatened on a daily basis. She decides to eat her food instead of saying this.

"It's - also fine if you want to stay home and raise the kids."

"Nah, she should be a school librarian. - like, it is in fact fine to stay home and raise one's kids but this is a Karen."

"I don't know what that means."

I'm stuck, can you -

"Some people flourish more when nothing depends on them but some people actually flourish more when things do depend on them, and when people depend on them, and Alex thinks you are the second sort, and your problem is that you have been enslaved for a while which is not at all the relevant kind of things depending on you, so now you need very small things that you can do, and by doing them you will learn that you are capable of doing things, and then be capable of doing more things. Relevant concepts he's reaching for include that elderly dementia patients live longer with a houseplant to look after, and that Karen was happier as the Slayer than she ever was before she was the Slayer, and that she was very unhappy in summer camp."

"Oh. I - guess that's possible."

"Also the kids deserve a good school librarian who doesn't hate them. Some of them have never met anyone who likes books before."

"I suppose I would probably not hate them. Or books."