Most peculiar
I have to admit that this year's Sunnydale Highschool Prom has been one of the strangest events I have attended in some years. It was not only realising that Dawn - who I have considered to be a child for as long as I have known her - is about to graduate from high school; nor the fact that the prom was crashed by aproximately a dozen demons - that in itself is hardly new around here.
No the most peculiar occurances were the make up of this year's high school defence. It always seems to be the case that in such overt attacks from the town's demonic undercurrent defenders seem to emerge, then fade away again - many of them prove to be nothing more than people who happened to be in the right place at the right time. However, I believe that some of these may have been more than they seemed.
The witch, Miss Dante was one obvious example - she had come prepared at least and I have no doubt she knew exactly what the risks associated with the school were. She seems to be genuine, however, the is a lack of control about her powers that disturbs me and I feel that she warrants closer study before I come to a final decision about her. Her power seems somewhat elemental, yet she does not seem to be able to direct that in any formed way, which possibly constitutes a danger to herself and to others.
Of the students, three stand out in my mind. The first was a dark girl who's name I didn't catch, but she fought like... Well, like Buffy actually, though with less skill. There was something about her that was familiar and which set me thinking. I must find time to research the possibilities of what she may be further, though one possiblity has settled at the front of my mind. I must be cautious though - simply because a theory seems to fit does not mean that it is right and I must not let me predisposition blind me to other possibilities.
The other two come as a pair. The boy, a werewolf. I have discovered that he is Oz' cousin, which makes the coincidence less so, yet makes the fact of his behaviour all the more strange. To see him in his werewolf form act in a controlled manner and seemingly recognising his friends, is most extraordinary. There seems to be some kind of connection between him and the young lady he was with, though neither could tell me in my limited conversations with them as I drove them home what that may be. I must reach Oz to enquire whether this phenomenome is recognised as any kind of normal werewolf behavour.