"So I should be working out how to throw vampires off my scent?" The words could be flippant, but her tone is genuinely just a little lost. Steph is used to dealing with gangs and criminals, occasionally throwing down against the upper echelon of Batman's villains - Clayface and Scarecrow - but she rarely has contact with the supernatural. The closest she's gotten is probably Klarion, and he was a little shit, but generally a good guy these days.

There's a small part of her that just wants to say I can handle it but that's stupid pride, and pride has only ever gotten her hurt. Talking like this with Ilde makes her feel like a kid again and she'd hoped she was past the days of feeling like she should go home and leave things to the adults.