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[slaying]

Willow's gone home.

[ the broadcast begins abruptly and buffy's voice is hard. not soft and vulnerable like when she had announced xander's disappearance. this is because she has had a full hour to herself in willow's now-empty room. she had gone in to set a batch of freshly laundered sheets on the witch's bed, all set out for when she came back

Comments

[ufo_fanboy]

[Oh, right, the kidnappings that had been mentioned. And while he's sure this Willow person is better off not being a test subject here, Mulder understands the sentiment. Losing people is never easy.]

A friend of yours? I'm... sorry to hear that.

[slaying]

[ it takes her just a moment to place the newly familiar voice. ]

She's better off -- it's what I keep having to tell myself.

[ufo_fanboy]

Not being an experimental test subject tends to be a step up.

[Of course, unless somehow it's WORSE back home.]

[slaying]

[ and home is pretty bad but at least it's a known badness. ]

Plus, who'd complain about going back to a world with cable tv?

[ufo_fanboy]

Exactly. I've already missed a couple games, and there was a movie marathon I was hoping to catch this weekend...

[Oh yeah, he totally has no life.]

Anyway, I'm sure she's better off back in familiar surroundings.

[slaying]

It's all about silver linings, right?

[ufo_fanboy]

Even if those linings have just a tinge of silver in them, and you can barely see it. I've been there before.

[slaying]

God? These days? I wonder if all I see is the tinge. I don't know if I remember the full-on lining.

[ufo_fanboy]

I think the important thing is that you at least don't give up looking for it.

[slaying]

How very zen and guru life coach of you to say.

[ufo_fanboy]

I guess I'd better stop where I am or else I'll have to move to the mountains and grow a long beard...

[slaying]

The longest. It'll be infested with twigs and stuff.

[ufo_fanboy]

If I'm going to go wild mountain zen master, I may as well take it the whole distance.

[slaying]

Gonna boycott underarm deodorant and everything?

[ufo_fanboy]

That'll win me a lot of popularity contests.

[slaying]

Because we have those all the time, here.