Buffy and Xander arrive. From bones_to_flesh
The visit from Angel to Willow and I, had been quite the shock. There...there were already enough things on my mind, that the last thing, the absolutely last thing that I needed to hear was that something else was going to be quite the bother.
Before he had arrived, the Master's revival was already on my mind. Because it had happened, Cordelia, Willow, myself and Jenny had lost blood, and all of us were still...still recovering from that, and then there was the rather unpleasant way that Jenny had made me leave after I had dropped her off last night. Then, there were the earthquake and aftershocks to contend with, with Buffy fully believing that because she had been killed the first time that we had experienced an earthquake, at the Master's hands, that it was possible that it could happen again.
Now, Angel had made his way here in direct daylight and was sporting some rather nasty bruises. Those bruises, as it turned out, were due to a direct confrontation that Angel had been through with the Master, and of course, things couldn't be easy for any of us, and Angel had informed us, that the Master, due to his revival, and while still trapped, did have strengths that he didn't have before, and these strengths seemed magical, as if the evil vampire leader of these parts was brought back by an evil deity who had seen fit to make him stronger.
I had asked Angel to leave, as to not show Buffy the bruises, and so that she wouldn't be distracted, but as soon as he did, I decided to study another avenue. The Books that might have helped with all of this and weren't, were now put aside, because while we weren't dealing with the norm...so to speak, before, I realized, now, that I had to think outside of the box as far as the master was concerned.
I turned to the dark arts chronicles, thinking to myself, of course. It had been a dark ritual to bring him back, so there could be no way to approach this, other then thinking that I would be able to find more looking into the grotesque and the magical, for those had been the forces that had been used to bring him back, using only his bones.
I handed Willow a couple of books and kept the ones where I thought that I might find the most...the volumes that dealt with using bones to revive flesh. These books weren't at all stodgy and were more like reading a children's book. It was rather chilling to think, that I might have been reading something written decades, if not centuries ago, by someone who was probably a purveyor of dark arts.
I was getting close to what I needed, when Buffy and Xander walked in, and walked in with Coffee and donuts. "It's about bloody time. I was about to ingest my own stomach inward, if I had to wait any longer."
I got up and made my way, as Willow did, towards the donuts and starbucks.
[Xander, Buffy and Willow]
Before he had arrived, the Master's revival was already on my mind. Because it had happened, Cordelia, Willow, myself and Jenny had lost blood, and all of us were still...still recovering from that, and then there was the rather unpleasant way that Jenny had made me leave after I had dropped her off last night. Then, there were the earthquake and aftershocks to contend with, with Buffy fully believing that because she had been killed the first time that we had experienced an earthquake, at the Master's hands, that it was possible that it could happen again.
Now, Angel had made his way here in direct daylight and was sporting some rather nasty bruises. Those bruises, as it turned out, were due to a direct confrontation that Angel had been through with the Master, and of course, things couldn't be easy for any of us, and Angel had informed us, that the Master, due to his revival, and while still trapped, did have strengths that he didn't have before, and these strengths seemed magical, as if the evil vampire leader of these parts was brought back by an evil deity who had seen fit to make him stronger.
I had asked Angel to leave, as to not show Buffy the bruises, and so that she wouldn't be distracted, but as soon as he did, I decided to study another avenue. The Books that might have helped with all of this and weren't, were now put aside, because while we weren't dealing with the norm...so to speak, before, I realized, now, that I had to think outside of the box as far as the master was concerned.
I turned to the dark arts chronicles, thinking to myself, of course. It had been a dark ritual to bring him back, so there could be no way to approach this, other then thinking that I would be able to find more looking into the grotesque and the magical, for those had been the forces that had been used to bring him back, using only his bones.
I handed Willow a couple of books and kept the ones where I thought that I might find the most...the volumes that dealt with using bones to revive flesh. These books weren't at all stodgy and were more like reading a children's book. It was rather chilling to think, that I might have been reading something written decades, if not centuries ago, by someone who was probably a purveyor of dark arts.
I was getting close to what I needed, when Buffy and Xander walked in, and walked in with Coffee and donuts. "It's about bloody time. I was about to ingest my own stomach inward, if I had to wait any longer."
I got up and made my way, as Willow did, towards the donuts and starbucks.
[Xander, Buffy and Willow]