Saya will do her best to help him make sense of this. She's had to do it so many times herself, every time her memories reset. Every time she went from hopeful to devastated, learning that she wasn't human and that she was the only key to winning a war for the fate of humanity.

The third vampire dares to try and bite her, so Saya grabs the thing by the jaw and pushes it against the wall of the alley.

"What, exactly, do you take me for?" she demands of the vampire, who struggles beneath her grip. The absolute insult of thinking it could bite her.

She puts her sword through its heart and it slumps to the ground. Saya flicks her sword to get the foul blood off, then inclines her head like she's listening for something.

"Do you hear them?" Heartbeats of people and vampires both, thundering with fear and exhilaration repectively.