"...yeah, I'm not sure if the priests here know about holy warriors, either. I think there's a convent somewhere near here? But I'm not sure what they know about any of this, either."

"I should talk them anyway. Not good for holy warriors to not be in an order. But - not right now. Right now vampires eat these people. Pretty sure God wants me learn from you how fight the vampires, right now. Maybe also learn other things from you, like the work of the devils who tell people God not real. - thank you. For saving us from the vampires."

"Yeah! I mean, it's my job, I guess. I'm just glad I could help." Wow that sounded obnoxious. "...I don't really know how to keep them from coming back, though, I'm pretty sure there are more."

"You kill them for good, if they turn to air? Or do they reform in their - evil place."

"I think those ones are gone for good. I just also think there are more of them out there."

"Vampires not stupid. If the ones that come here die, maybe they try not coming. I can sleep in day and do this night, if only I strong enough kill them. I have money to not work."

...she's gonna get eaten, if she tries to do it by herself. Probably. Maybe not the first time, maybe she'll get lucky, but what if there are two vampires? What if, instead, the vampire gets lucky?

This is so upsetting. These people would be safe if they had houses. She cannot give them all houses.

"It seems like a lot to do by yourself. I guess I probably can't stay all night every night, I have to go to school, but I'm still worried that doesn't solve the problem. Maybe we should be trying to find out where the right kind of holy orders are - I don't know of any but you'd think they've got to exist, with as big a problem as the vampires are - and - maybe they can help?"

This is a plan that distinctly doesn't have any concrete steps in it, she has no idea how to find vampire-hunting religious orders, but it feels better than accepting any of her other obviously inadequate plans.

"They help. Their job fight the dead not-dead. I no idea how to look, if not ask priest."

"Yeah. I don't really know either. ...do you know what order your uncle was in? I don't know if I can look it up, but it would be a place to start, I guess."

"Holy order of Menador. - Menador place name."

"Oh." She was kind of hoping he was part of a global order like the Franciscans or the Dominicans, except devoted to fighting vampires, but she supposes it makes sense for any openly vampire-hunting orders to be small ones. It would be hard to get really big if everyone thought you were crazy. "Well, I can look them up and see if they're, like, associated historically with anyone else, I guess." Ugh those are very impolitely big words. "Um, whether they - were connected to any other orders a long time ago. I guess there also might be some way to contact them even if they're in another country, and maybe they'd have advice?"

"Maybe. No one I ask know place names I from. I think it far. - they come here, I think, if they know about the devil work here."

"Well, that would be nice. I think the thing where people don't believe in vampires is - kind of widespread, though it's obviously not everywhere."

"I'll go to the library tomorrow, I guess."

"Thank you. I no can read English. Tomorrow after Mass I and people make stakes, train to stop vampires."

Oh, right, tomorrow's Sunday, she has to go to Mass. Is the library even open on Sundays? It's possible that she should also spend tomorrow afternoon sleeping, really.

This is such an unfairly big problem. She would like to go back to having smaller problems, please.

For now she can stay up all night and make sure there aren't any other vampires. This is not very long-term sustainable, but she doesn't have any better ideas right now.

There's one more, towards morning; she lifts her head from her very tired concentrating on Evil detection and points urgently in the relevant direction before taking off, this time, because she's noticed Karen is much more powerful than her.

(She still then tries to stab the vampire, because Karen being more powerful than her is no excuse to let Karen brave this alone.)

Karen is also very tired and has also not slept. Responsibilities were a mistake, life is deeply unfair, she is a tiny whiny baby who would like to go back to being ignorant, WHY does any of this have to be HER job -

- but she'll tackle the vampire and then stake it, of course.

She is so much better at it. Iomedae wants to be that good. 

(The vampire kicked Iomedae, once, only a glancing hit really, and her knee and lower leg now want to desert their duties by which she means she's barely still standing. It kicked Karen and pretty much nothing happened. She is well aware that is how 'being powerful' works, that the same blows don't bend you, but it's still something to witness it.)

She mutters a prayer for the departed ("forgive this soul the evil it did unwillingly, guard it in its travels, and let it find its final rest in the place it most desires", the only one of the prayers for the departed in a large book of them which did not frustrate her) and grits her teeth and limps back to optimal Evil-detection position. The sun's nearly visible; they'll be safe soon.

Karen regrets all of her life choices except for the part where they probably totally saved three people tonight. She wants to go HOME and go to BED but she's not sure she has time to even nap before Mass. Usually she goes to the late morning service, but maybe today  it makes more sense to go to the early service and be MISERABLE.

Iomedae is presumably also going to Mass and maybe she would be slightly less miserable if she tagged along with her. She would probably still be miserable but maybe it would take the edge off.

"You going to Mass, after this?"

- this cheers Iomedae up about the leg injury. " - yes! Let's go to Mass! - when priest say we leave church, he mean only then, not we have find other church for Mass?"

"...probably? I usually go to St Mary's, but I think it's a little further away from here." UGH she has to WALK all the way back to her HOUSE after this. "We could probably go to either, though, I don't think he'd get upset as long as we don't do anything weird this time."

"I not take the holy water if it is not allowed. Even though it would save people. I never have problem at Mass before. If everyone go, probably some will drive."

And she will go around asking everyone who's going to early Mass. It's pretty much all of them. Vampire attacks inspire religiosity.

...okay, she can probably afford to be slightly less miserable if she gets to sit in a car instead of walking. Sure. She'll go wherever they're planning on going, then.

They can all fit in the vans if they completely ignore vehicle safety laws, which they do. Everyone is anxious and babbling about the vampires. They are very glad to have had Karen's help, though, and varying from cautiously optimistic to reasonably confident that God has a plan.

Iomedae will sing holy songs in an unfamiliar language the whole way.