Well, he's still standing here. That's a good thing. She had hoped the college talk might add a bit of normal to what she had a feeling would be abnormal for him. Maybe it helped. Maybe it didn't.

"Yeah, they don't exist everywhere. And for a long time not everyone knew they existed. Only the people who fought them. But recently they kind of outted themselves all over the place. Vampires, at least. So people know they're there." Except for those who still tried to convince themselves that it was movie magic. Lots of make-up and special effects.

"So my sister is the Slayer. She has special powers to fight the creature features who want to kill people and destroy the world." She explains. "And pretty much everything in my life revolves around that."