"I super don't!"

"I'll show you to the dorm." 

"Thanks!"

She leads him to another haunted-looking building. This one is quite modern on the inside, divided up into what seem to be fairly ordinary-looking college singles. 

Well at least he won't have to navigate having a roommate. Cool. Also he can now stop hauling two suitcases everywhere he goes, that's pretty cool too.

"...wanna hang out some more?"

"Sure." She flops casually on his bed. "You seem pretty neat." 

"You seem pretty neat too!"

He sits down next to her.

"So, vampires. Two-tailed cat ladies. What other stuff is there that I have no idea exists but everybody here is gonna think I already know about?"

"Uh...vampires are kinda...a big deal, a little? Like, among monsters, there's a certain amount of hierarchy by species according to level of ass-kicking, and vampires are kinda near the top. I'm not all that, this rosary," she taps the cross around her neck, "restricts my powers, but that's what I thought was going on when you said 'really?' when I said I was a vampire, I didn't think you wouldn't believe in monsters. And there's, like, lots of stuff really. I don't think I've even heard of everything in particular. But, like, werewolves, mermaids, sirens, harpies, ogres, sasquatch, yeti--different things, those two--witches, succubi, I think most things from mythology are real. Oh, and there's monstrels. A few kinds of monster, like succubi, breed true through crosses, but most of the time when two kinds of monsters have a kid you get a hybrid, or monstrel. They can look kinda weird in true form, if the species they're descended from combine oddly, and they're subject to all kinds of hybrid vigor and hybrid decay and stuff. Their level of asskickitude varies wildly but they're pretty low on the social totem pole regardless. Sort of a toss-up who's lower, them or witches--witches are pretty powerful but they're also biologically human."

"...so wait, you can be human and still count as somebody who shouldn't get eaten? Or do people eat witches?"

"Man, people eat other monsters who aren't witches sometimes, humans are more hunted 'cause you're tastier and can't fight back as well, not out of principle. Monster society pretty much sucks, there's a reason my mom went to go live with humans when I was little." 

"Wow, okay. Me and my impulse control will fit right in, I guess. What, like, is a witch? Like, 'powerful but biologically human' sounds like maybe something I should be looking into if I want to be able to kick somebody's ass if they try to eat me?"

"Witchcraft runs in families. I dunno if that means you can only learn to be a witch if you have witch genes or if it's just that their techniques are all family secrets, witches are pretty secretive." 

"So, in conclusion, sucks to be me." He snorts.

"Sorry. Uh, I do know of a way you could get supernatural goodies but like...it's temporary."

"Oh?"

"So I can drink blood through my fangs, but in theory I could also use them to inject my own blood in someone else, and then that person gets temporary vampire powers." 

"...cool. What are vampire powers like?"

"Mostly we're really strong and heal fast. But like. Really really strong." 

"Sounds like fun. How temporary is temporary?"

"Dunno. I've never done it before."

"And you don't have, like, a ballpark? Like if it's five minutes that's not super useful except for having fun with superpowers, but if it's like a couple days then in theory I could just have superpowers all the time while I'm here and then I would be way less likely to die?"

"I don't think it's a couple days. Even if it was only five minutes it could still be useful for taking advantage of the regen but I think proooooobably it's more like hours? Maybe we should test it." 

"Maybe we should."

"Gonna have to bite you," she warns, sitting up and moving closer. 

"I figured. 'S all right."