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“So was my remark,” I shoot back, realizing that once again my sense of humor and that of one Buffy Summers do not mesh. Or my sense of humor and anyone American. Not even Cordelia or Fred would always get it. Gunn and Angel certainly didn’t. Had to take everything so literally. That’s why Spike was such a delight. Verbally sparring with someone who get British humor? Wonderful.
I smile at her when she tells me Dawn is doing marvelous. Not that I ever had any doubt, she’s always been very bright. Loved books from what I recall, even if those memories were fake. To me they were real. Just as Dawn was real to her sister and those who knew her.
“Why would he do that?” I asked puzzled. “Not that I’m a fan of Watchers mind you. But you’d think Someone like Dawn would be perfect with all those new Slayers around. She could be a new kind of Watcher, the way they should be. Not some general who orders his soldier into death, but a teacher who’ll train and teach. She has an advantage over al other watcher. She knows what being a Slayer is really like in a way.”
“So was my remark,” I shoot back, realizing that once again my sense of humor and that of one Buffy Summers do not mesh. Or my sense of humor and anyone American. Not even Cordelia or Fred would always get it. Gunn and Angel certainly didn’t. Had to take everything so literally. That’s why Spike was such a delight. Verbally sparring with someone who get British humor? Wonderful.
I smile at her when she tells me Dawn is doing marvelous. Not that I ever had any doubt, she’s always been very bright. Loved books from what I recall, even if those memories were fake. To me they were real. Just as Dawn was real to her sister and those who knew her.
“Why would he do that?” I asked puzzled. “Not that I’m a fan of Watchers mind you. But you’d think Someone like Dawn would be perfect with all those new Slayers around. She could be a new kind of Watcher, the way they should be. Not some general who orders his soldier into death, but a teacher who’ll train and teach. She has an advantage over al other watcher. She knows what being a Slayer is really like in a way.”