Another quiet night. Jeez. There must be a convention in Sacramento or something.
(Ari makes a mental note to see if there's actually a convention in Sacramento that he could infect with Qik'thx Plague or something. That'd be convenient. Such things have been known to happen.)
Patrol, patrol, patrol.
"I don't mean to be rude, it's just that I'm kind of doing a thing, keeping the vampires honest and all that, and I don't need them slain. So we're kind of at cross purposes here. Unless you've taken it on yourself to revolutionize the Vampire Slayer industry to not involve vampire slaying?"
"More the support staff. The Council's a bit... zero-tolerance. Stab first, ask questions of next of kin before stabbing them, kind of thing. And a lot of the potential Slayers get secreted away to training facilities by them early on, so they end up as mini-Watchers themselves."
Ari pulls out his phone and, after some back-scrolling, comes up with a neatly color-coded map and hands the phone over. "Try not to swipe to any other photos. Anyway, a friend of mine came up with a set of routes. I pick one at random and patrol that way. Way I'm thinking, maybe we'd take it from opposite ends and meet up in the middle, tell each other anything suspicious we may have seen?"
He points out his route. It is a reasonable route for the purpose of canvassing a moderately sized suburb, which, conveniently, Sunnydale is.
"Sally's great, yeah. Color-coding is her passion. And if you want to give me your number I can text you it, and also call you up if something desperately needs Slaying."