[There's the familiar click of the Forge turning on. And then... silence.]

[And then more silence.]

[And the voice that finally breaks it isn't someone new at all. It's Buffy.]

....oh my god, say something before we all crumble to dust.

[Now you can hear the new guy. Revel in the awkward.]Uh... hi ( Read more... )

[Several bursts of static and in between them - growling - howling - the tearing of flesh and the thud of something heavy striking the ground. Breath and the scrape of something sharp against stone (or ground?) - static, static and more static---

---snarl and splash and static and---]

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What a wretched display.

[Hey, it's a Sophia, looking all sultry and silver-eyed and not like some big hulking monster.]

That was the second most unpleasant experience of my life. It seems I owe a few people my thanks for retrieving me from it, and not all of them warriors at that.

I'm...glad to be back among you.

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