"I disagree!"

"Hagan gets on that horse sometimes too. But - the idea of the evil afterlives is that they run off the principles you lived by. I think one ought to do better than that for people. But - it doesn't ping as evil."

" - look, there's not actually any reason to expect that our people are going to your set of afterlives, I feel like someone would have noticed that, even if we don't have reliable access to dead people. We'd have to do more scrys to be sure of anything. There's also no reason to hold ourselves to detect alignment's moral sensibilities; we didn't do it before and we don't have any particular reason to believe that whatever their universe wants people to be is precisely the thing that we ought to be, even if there's overlap in concepts."

"Oh, I agree."

"Okay. So long as we're clear. Anything else about where you are - "

"Is there a good way to get around without a car?"

"There are buses. Unfortunately Sunnydale is not the most walkable town ever. Did you figure out how to cross streets - "

"Someone told us you just look whether there are cars coming but this cannot possibly be the way people traverse the whole city on foot."

She looks slightly pained. " - I should have explained before. Okay. You follow the sidewalks until you get to the points where the streets intersect, and then you cross one street at a time, not going across diagonally. And yeah, at small streets you look both ways. At big streets, the ones that have lights, you wait when there's an orange hand light and cross when there's a white light that looks like a person walking. This doesn't make it possible to easily walk from one end of the town to the other, but it does mean you can ever get anywhere safely. For longer trips I think we'll have to teach you how to use the bus system."

"Can we fly?"

"That - sounds like it'll attract a lot of attention?"

"...so, no?"

"We could illusion the carpet to look like a car?"

"That sounds plausibly okay, assuming we're talking about a flying carpet, but we'd have to teach you to obey traffic rules and those are somewhat more complicated than walking rules. I - have no idea what the legality of flying a carpet that looks like a car on the roads without a permit is but I expect it's kind of sketchy."

They look disappointed. "All right."

"Sorry, I realize it's very hard to get around without one. I wanna talk to people who know more about - stuff. And - I'm not sure you guys have fully processed what it means that people mostly don't believe in magic, or at least believe that no one else does? It means that right now, the vampires, the demons, they have to operate covertly to maintain their element of surprise. And that limits what they can do, a lot. If you start doing things that mess with that presupposition - and to be clear it would take kind of a lot, we think there might be mind-affecting magic capable of keeping people from recognizing the truth - but it's possible that the masquerade could shatter, and it's possible that that leads to open warfare, and maybe we win, but maybe we don't. So if it's gonna happen we want it to happen strategically, not because you guys did something random to save thirty minutes of walking."

- nod.

"I do feel like we we it to you to help you navigate the city until you have the hang of it. Unfortunately everyone here either works or goes to school. Or is a vampire. Or is a dog. Except Faith."

"Hey, I don't mind babysitting duty."

"We'd appreciate a guide."

Karen looks mildly dubious about this. "Then I guess Faith can show you what's in town tomorrow."

"Sure. I'll show 'em the sights. They're from the middle ages?"

"They have never seen a movie."

"You poor deprived souls."

"If we're to ever get home we will need to fight some stuff - unless Abadar's very supportive of the temple project. But I guess we can start with the movies."