"Looks like fun," she says. "So, before I get started killing vampires: on a scale from one to ten, how evil are all vampires and is there variation?"

"There's variation, just like there's variation in humans. Vampires have the basic personality and memories of the person that used to occupy their bodies, but lack any and all empathy, morality tends to stop moving them, and they get an instinctive thirst for blood and violence and destruction."

"So if they're not actively trying to kill me I should see if I can convince them not to be so… evil?"

"Amend that to 'also not actively trying to kill someone else,' that will be rare enough."

"I was sort of assuming that I'd go stopping them if they tried killing other people, and then they'd be trying to kill me, but yeah, point."

"If you do find a vampire that's not murdering anyone, it might be a good idea to try to tail them undetected for a bit to make sure they're really not murdering anyone."

"And then talk to them to make sure they're actually not evil?"

"Yes, if you like, but I wouldn't be so sure you'll be able to actually detect evilness just by talking."

"It depends on how much they pretend, I guess, but I mean– ugh, I don't know, I just mean I'd rather not go staking literally every single one of them without remorse or forethought, because I don't know if they're all like that or if they're just mostly like that nor what sort of variation there is."

"It's unlikely you'll run into a vampire that's not like that, I would expect those tend to avoid human contact in general."

She nods. "Okay. So, uh. Anything in particular I should be looking at?"

"Anything that looks parasitic or that could change someone's behaviour."

Approximately what it was before, not starting any generalized stuff or whatever, then, okay, yeah, that makes sense.

Research. Woo.

Research!

And by dusk they won't have found anything relevant, but they will all be much more knowledgeable about the different ways humans can be hurt, maimed, tortured, killed, dismembered, disfigured, tormented, and eaten.

"I'm hungry," Sadde declares.

"Yeah, I am a bit too," says Eva. "Should we just meet up again in like an hour or so, go grab some food, or…?"

"Let's eat and then break and enter. Wanna come with us?" she directs the question at Norma.

"No, but thank you for offering, dearie."

Food it is, then!

Yep!

"S-so. Hi. I'm Willow."

"I'm Eva," says Eva, smiling.

"I'm Sadde! You probably know this."

"I do!" she says. "Anywhere in particular you want to go for food, or…?"

"Not in particular, no," she shrugs.

"Could just go grab some fries or something – not particularly healthy but then again fast food doesn't really tend to be?"

"Well doesn't need to be fast, does it, we have a while before it gets full dark, but I don't particularly care much," she shrugs.