"Well, and this is probably gonna make me sound even more crazy to you than I already do, but... monsters are real. Magic is real. So, big bads are what I call the things that are trying to kill us or others or to generally destroy the world." She actually kind of likes Porthos and worries that he might think she's too crazy to be friends with. But there really is no easy way to tell him her truth.

"We have vampires and demons and ghosts and hell gods and goddesses and witches and Slayers all sorts of things that are both good and bad." She adds. "Just like people can be both good and bad... only they have special powers so sometimes their bad is really bad."

She'll pause there, to let him absorb that and see if he flees for the hills or has more questions. In the meantime, she nods enthusiastically at his question about education. "Yeah, I'm in my second year. Almost done with it. And let me tell you, it was not easy with all the pauses I've had to take cause of things of the odd that have to do with those things that fall into the 'big bad brewing evil' category."