[ Taking the stairs isn't that bad, relatively speaking, when he only has to go up to the tenth floor, though it does take a while. That's fine in this case, since he's not in a hurry to get there, and they're seemingly the only people in the stairwell. It's a little easier to avoid confronting Dean head on when they're both moving, which he's trying to avoid because it would just be venting mutual frustrations at each other without actually accomplishing anything. There's no criticism that Dean could launch at him that he doesn't think about all the time himself, nothing that doesn't already grate on him, subtly and slowly but inexorably, every day he's trapped here. There's still a lot that Dean doesn't get, even now that he understands the basics, but it won't take him too long to understand the gist of things here.

Or he'll be gone before he has a chance to. That's always the easier option. That harder one is having to stay and find ways to cope with this place and the feeling that anything he does just amounts to treading water, with the one definite opportunity to get out locked up behind what seems like an impenetrable wall.

Talking about vampires, relatively, is a much easier subject. ]

There are a few vampires that I know of, and none of them are like the ones we know. Werewolves too, but I don't know if they're still in town, and a few other things that aren't human. But they're all just people, and they have to follow the rules as much the rest of us.

[ It's a bit of a kick in the gut that Dean's gotten to know a vampire already, everything that happened with Benny is still fresh in his mind, even though it's technically been a year. There's a stark difference between time spent here and what he left at home. Not that home has much more for him, unless he goes back miraculously healed, the same way as he was when he arrived here. He's got his doubts. He's also not convinced that his future is as set as his brother wanted him to believe before. The fact that he's still here, when nearly everyone else has come and gone, just chips away at any certainty he might have had. Maybe there is a reason he's stayed when the others haven't. ]

For the record, even if you did kill one of them, which still counts as murder here by the way, they'd just be back later, and probably even more pissed at you. Even dying doesn't get you out of this place.

[ When they finally do come out on the tenth floor it's a fairly open hallway with just two doors, one on either side. Sam's already got his key out as he turns to one of them. ]