"That's just it, though. I never really saw people dying around me. I was a baker, just feeding people and making them happy. A few months ago, though, I... caught a vampire trying to dry-guy a girl a few blocks from the coffeehouse, and I didn't even stop to think. I just ran up to him and killed him."

And that kind of action, without thought or any kind of reason, scares the snot out of her. Apart from the whole if-I-miss-they'll-tear-my-head-off-before-I-get-a-chance-to-correct-my-aim thing.

"I shouldn't have been able to. But they're wanting me to somehow save the world because I got lucky once."

It's a lot to take in, over a short period of time, especially when one has been raised to essentially be a bitchy coward, and has a vampire who believes things could be different between humans and vampires.