"So you practice," she said, raising her voice over a car alarm that had just gone off. Holly shrugged again. "A person using a gun is more likely to hurt or kill someone if he doesn't know what the hell he's doing with it."

The brunette thought of the Slayer who had killed her father. That kind of raw energy and strength was overwhelming.

"Did you just wake up one day like this? When did you find out about it?"