"But you can turn invisible?" he asks, immediately perking up.

"It's on the list of things for my witch sister to learn to help me with, but I can't do it yet."

"...she's not an evil witch, right?" Kevin asks dubiously.

"My sister's a very good witch."

"Oooh. Like Glinda," Kevin says sagely.

"With less pink."

"Getting to know you sort of visit. Nothing's popped up that I'm aware of. I wonder if there isn't a better way to keep apprised of what might benefit from my awareness of it, though? Than just waiting for it to come to me? Not that I'd necessarily want to deploy a seeking algorithm on a regular basis until summer break."

"The Watchers aren't really any more systematic about it than that, sadly," Tamara says with a sigh. "There's something of a network, of course; I'd hear from other Watchers if something was happening in another city. But mostly, the trouble will just come to you. You do live on a Hellmouth, after all."

"...did you not know? There's a Hellmouth in Sunnydale. A portal to a demon dimension. A closed one, thankfully. They're known to attract all sorts of supernatural elements, good and bad. You being one of the former sort, I suspect."

"Why would I know that?"

"You knew about the Watcher's Council unaided, you have a witch for a sister? I was just giving you credit for discovering things, I suppose. I'm sorry to spring it on you, in any case."

"The library's full of books. I've found some things, but they probably don't have a lot of correlation with whatever you'd put on an introductory curriculum. You should swing by the school sometime and see what you recommend I put first. I think Soph has a process that works for her in the magic department, but I don't know when I look at a book if it contains demons I will need to know how to slay next week or obscure ones who only materialize in Antarctica until I've spent a while looking through it."

"I am certainly qualified as a book sorter," Tamara agrees, amused. "I'll put together a list for you to start with. Did you want help with combat training as well?"

"In theory yes, in practice how would you go about it? I'd sign up for martial arts if I thought it was necessarily safe for me to come to blows with an unenhanced human; am I wrong?"

"Just walking into a martial arts class unannounced? Probably dangerous. But carefully, with planning and an informed instructor, invaluable. Vampires are not the world's only dangers, merely its most numerous. Witches, or humans who are for whatever reason doing the bidding of various evils- there are many situations where you might need to know how to take down someone non-lethally. And you are, at present ill-equipped to do so safely. The Council has some exercises it suggests, or there's a local trainer I might suggest you ask."

"Yeah, Soph's list of things to find has 'enchant darts so they make people fall asleep' as a nonlethal option but she hasn't done it yet and aikido or whatever would be good too, sign me up."

"And the fewer objects you have to carry with you constantly, the better," Tamara observes. "Was that a literal, here is my schedule arrange a class please request, or a rather more metaphorical one?"

"I have a magic seashell knife, so I don't have to smuggle my crossbow into school every day, I definitely hear the 'objects' thing." She taps her magic seashell knife. "But my schedule's pretty straightforward. Visits to the morgue in the early mornings, school till three, my sister and I split a car but she's pretty flexible and I can get around by jogging pretty easily. I'd want to know when you were signing me up for exactly what, but I would like to move towards signing-up-type behaviors."

"Magic seashell knife...? Well, if it works for you. Let's say- I'll aim for twice a week martial arts lessons, subdue not attack, and twice a week general fitness training? Is that too large of a time commitment?"

"It looks ornamental, and I and only I can turn it into a knife at will, and supposedly it'll cut through anything, although I have no steel girders that I would like to slice into small pieces. Unpack 'general fitness training'?"

"I am not actually a trainer, but I can guess. Cardio and endurance? Building up staking muscles? Super powers or no, you can always be better."

"Sure, but one increases those things by working at the limits of one's abilities and I think lifting cars would probably be bad for the cars and running long enough to wind me would take all day long, so I'm not sure how it would be arranged."

Tamara laughs. "I don't think the problem will be quite as bad as all that. You could always lift things in a scrap yard, for instance. We'll talk to your trainer and see what they think."