[ this is normally when she corrects someone -- please, it's buffy -- but if melaka is really a slayer then there is a whole brace of alternative considerations. and now that buffy has the chance to see the girl, she can see that she's...not very young -- not for a slayer -- but younger, certainly. and it's nigh impossible for buffy not to approach melaka like a newly located and assigned girl back home. ]

That'd be me. Which makes you Melaka. God, I can't say I ever expected to see another Slayer in these parts after...[ after faith left. ]

Well, let's just say it's a surprise.