“No. I lied, it’s actually just a common expression here in Barovia. Of course I’m fucking serious, there’s a vampire!” A lifetime of constant danger had given her the ability to have a sense of humor regardless how  grim the situation. Teo was amazed at how much she hated foreigners at times like these, though. She looked downstairs and recognized Bucren, though the two were never close in the town, it was a small enough place to be aware of each other.<br/><br/>Then, the shouting idiot from earlier trounced up the stairs. If Teo had to guess, she would have pegged him as the man who had opened the door at night. She turned to the sword-wielding "knight" and gave him the most flippant smile she could muster to show off her teeth under the panic she was enduring and hissed “If I was a fucking vampire, you’d have been dead the second you opened the door. Go ahead, though. Put your sword through the head of the only one who has any fucking sense in this tavern besides Bucren.”<br/><br/>Xavier satisfied, she was immediately shoved inside the room without warning. Teo nearly drew her dagger at the action, though she calmed herself at the last second. She could already tell she didn’t like this one.<br/><br/>She turned to Katya and answered her earlier question. “Unlike your friends, mine tend to like to stay alive. They probably bolted through the escape hatch the second that door was opened and barred it behind them. I don’t blame them really. I would have done the same thing. That’s where everyone smart went. Which leaves us.”<br/><br/>Teo pulled out her dagger and flipped it in the air a couple of times as she spoke, simultaneously steadying her hand and trying to strike a little urgency in her new allies. “Either of you know anything about fighting? Have any silver? Now would be the time to tell me you’re vampire hunters from some distant land.” She knew she was going to have to go out there at some point and help the moron and Bucren, but if either Esperanza or Katya were in the slightest competent then she had no problem letting them go first to give the vampire more targets that weren’t Teo.