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[Katie's been busy the past few days... doing a decidedly odd collection of activities, at that. Housemates might note she keeps coming home covered in sand and tired enough to actually go to bed at a decent hour. And she's quiet. Brook's gone home, and so's Zoro, and she heard Archie got hurt (and she needs to ask him about that at some point)...

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[ the resident vampire slayer is in the item shop -- picking through suspiciously vampire-related items. trying to find a cross or two. maybe some holy water if it manages to show up (but it never does).

at one point she even takes a broom handle and snaps it in two, experimentally staking an invisible enemy in front of her. ]

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[Oh, my. Buffy will already have her full attention. She's seen you before. Just...not in person. Katie keeps a little distance for now, though-- Buffy's own echoes aren't the nicest of things-- but the slayer has picked up a very avid watcher, peeking around the edge of the shelves with a little awe.

...okay, a lot of awe.]

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[ most of those echoes are pretty dire, yes. but some are triumphant. majestically victorious, by times. either way there is no mistaking the fact that this young woman has lived an awful lot.

eventually, she notices the girl peeking and with a flourishless maneuver she pockets the make-shift stakes. ]

Hi, there.

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Hello. [Katie edges out from behind the shelves a little more, staring up at Buffy with curiosity.]

Are you really a vampire hunter?

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...Slayer. [ she corrects rather automatically. and then is hit with the weirdness of why a kid knows this much. but -- small village, she supposes. ]

The actual term's called vampire slayer.

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Oh. We call them vampire hunters at home. Although they're not very good, so maybe that's why. Have you slain many?

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...I lost count somewhere after thousands.

[ which isn't a lie or an embellishment, at least. ]

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Thousands? [Lady, that's impressive. And kind of frightening.] Were they an army? What kind of vampires were they? Did they burn up? Do they like art?

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Whoa, whoa. One burning question at a time.

[ she leans on a shelf, thinking of how to best attack this. ] Vampires aren't really pack animals. Maybe you'll catch a nest now and then but I made those numbers up with nightly patrols. As for the what kind? Well -- the soullessly demonic kind. And they burned up in the sun, but if you stake them? They dust.

Some of them like art. But not always good art.

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You must have done a lot of patrols, then. I didn't know there were so many. We only had one in our town. He liked art. [Blink.] And cats.

[And now peering curiously at the pockets into which those stakes disappeared.] Are there many vampires in Luceti?

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Every night. [ she admitted again with a wry smile. ]

And there are some. But they're mostly on the non-evil side. [ mostly. she replies most cagily as it's a subject she's still investigating. ]

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Mostly. Are the sparkly ones evil? [She's always been curious about those ones.]

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...Only socially evil. [ she has grudges against the cullens from when they were around. ] Luckily, they're not on the human juice.

[ AND THEN BUFFY REALIZES WHAT SORT OF HORRORS SHE IS TELLING WHAT LOOKS LIKE A SMALL GIRL. and she looks a little uncomfortable. ] But you don't need to worry about that.

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But I like worrying. [She shifts from one foot to the other.] I always wanted to try vampire hunting.

[Or...for the last week or two, anyway.]

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You say that -- but truthfully? The hours suck.

[ a friendly, warm rebuff. it's really a business not-for-kids. it's not even really a business for teenagers but, ah well. what can you do? ]

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Really? Do you have to be up all night? [But that sounds like fun!]