Ethan blinked a few times at the girl when she claimed to be a Vampire Slayer. That couldn't be correct, Faith was still alive after all and couldn't there be only one at a time? Excepting Buffy's special circumstances of course, not that he really understood that either. Lost in his thoughts as he was, he hadn't been aware that the girl had plopped herself down beside him until her voice sounded from there. He laughed at the idea that he was a Watcher, but it was short lived by the assertion that Ripper was probably dead. He'd always held out hope that if Ethan Rayne could make it through this madness then surely Ripper could too and that the two would meet again some day.
"Well, C," Ethan tried to cover his feelings that calling someone a letter as a name was quite silly, "you certainly do have a lot to say don't you? First, no I am not a Watcher, I am a sorcerer and I have no affiliation with the pompous idiots that make up that ridiculous council of tweed wearing dimwits. Second, Faith is still alive. I thought there could only be one of you at a time. Third, I have no doubts that Rupert Giles is alive and well out there somewhere, or, rather, as well as one can be in this insanity."
Okay so that third one was a lie, but he didn't want to have doubts so it was close enough. "And finally, are there showering facilities here? I feel more than a bit like a filth demon from the guttural wastes at present."