| He had drawn a sword of his own and came at her, while his companion maneuvered for a flanking attack on the slayer. |
| Finally, there is an encounter where a veteran slayer faces down a vampire with a wooden stake in hand. |
| The scorpion holds an infamous place in Greek mythology as the slayer of Orion. |
| The rock star slash vampire slayer in the story was actually an idea for another book. |
| Thus the bracketing of hull and basketwork trap also instils notions of the fisherman and his catch, the hunter and his quarry, the slayer and the slain. |
| The next thing you see is, indeed, what would have happened to Sunnydale if buffy, the vampire slayer, had never hit town. |
