Excellent, no vampire characteristics is the best amount of vampire characteristics.

Which leaves someone, human but more ongoingly magic than a shifter, who's poor enough to care about recyclables-level money. A young woman who is living like a street person... so he should be careful not to spook her.

(He doesn't have a ton of money himself, if he can't get home. But it's probably worth it.)

"Excuse me, miss? You look well-informed, and I'm more lost than I look. Trade you takeout for answering questions?"

"All right," she says. She doesn't seem spooked at all. "What can I help you with?"

He looks around for anyone who might overhear, but assuming they're relatively clear, he just lowers his voice and continues. 

"This morning I was in New York City. I tripped in an alleyway, and then I was here: in SF Chinatown, the date is different, and my phone and credit cards don't work. And I know magic exists, but you're not any of the kinds I know about. I would like to know what magic exists here, and how much about it I have to keep secret."

"...huh. Uh, I'm a magical girl. People know we exist but not all the details."

"That is definitely not something anyone in my family knows exists. And we know about three kinds of magic which are all secret. Well, we are one kind, and know about two others. One of those is that I can cast a magic spell which shows me where there is magic within a half-mile or so. So far I've seen you, and something in the basement of a shabby-looking place in Chinatown near where I... call it 'appeared'."

"...well, I can't detect magic like you apparently can, so I don't know what's magical in Chinatown. Could be something a magical girl did."

"I noted the address, if you're curious. What do most people know? And why don't they know the rest?"

"Well, people know that there are magical monsters normal humans can't see, and magical girls fight them, and don't know the rest because the Empress of Magi, Jun Wu, thinks it's a security concern."

"How many of you are there, worldwide? Thousands? Millions?"

"Maybe half a million."

"Enough that the shadow government matters to the normal government. We don't have that, just a few thousand of us and nothing flashy. I wonder how law- not important now. Hmm. Why don't you make money off your magic? Is it illegal?"

"Me in particular?" She glances wryly at her bag of bottles.

"Yeah. It's... noticeable."

"It's a long story. I can't use much magic any more, just the little bit I need to live at all."

Or else what?, he thinks, but doesn't say. "Empress of Magi" and "security risk" sounds... Well, he suspects he is going to hate it if he hears more. What can he ask that seems safe...?

"So, only girls have magic here? Not even women in general, just young ones?"

"I'm hundreds of years old. But yes, only girls."

"I'd probably take immortality even if it meant trash-picking... But I guess I would never have had the option. I owe you some takeout, I think. Know anywhere good nearby?"

"I'm not picky. There's a burrito place there." Point.

"Sounds good."

He heads over to place an order. Just gets her burrito and a soda for himself.

"Do you have any advice on what to do, or what not to do, if I want to stay clear of your Empress and whatever government she runs? I don't want to make trouble accidentally." Making some on purpose, maybe, but not accidentally.

"Well, she lives in China, so don't go to China, I suppose. If you don't hang out with regular magical girls who interact with her Court, or fight monsters, you probably won't get her attention easily, at least if you wouldn't get a normal government's attention. Why do you want to avoid her?"

"Where I'm from, we have very few remaining monarchs, and none of them have any real authority. Before that was true, there were a lot of bloody wars and purges whenever the monarchs looked askance at something. A monarch of all magic who has enough teeth to her rule to ban almost all information from being spread, is a very dangerous person to come to the attention of."

"Magical girls are as a rule focused on monsters, not human affairs."

"Well, I better do my best not to be seen as a monster, then. Do any of the monsters look like animals? Werewolves, maybe?"

"Not very much like, but they can appear a variety of ways and sometimes a potential magical girl mistakes one for an animal. Normal people can't see them, though."

"Then I'm probably safe. I'll test it some time more convenient, whether normal people can still see me when I'm not humanoid. It's still scary that there is someone with that amount of power, though, even if she probably won't look in my direction. And if this is the only magic you have, she might well decide all magic is under her authority if I ever make any waves, if she could profit off it and the normal governments can't easily refuse her."