001: [HOLO] ARRIVAL - NOT DOROTHY, NOT IN KANSAS

[glowingseer]

When someone comes home after a long day of battling creepy demons and averting apocalyptic disasters from ever hitting the city - otherwise known as a normal day at the office - she will expect that, when she opens her door she will see very familiar and comforting things to her

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[holo]

[erudite_watcher]

It's been years since he's heard that voice, but hardly a handful of words are uttered before he knows just who Taxon's newest arrival is.

"Cordelia?" He cleans his glasses just to be sure, but that's her hovering above his tablet. She may be small in size for the moment, but her personality and voice certainly haven't shrunk in the intervening years.

"I don't believe I've ever heard you call yourself normal before, or inferred that there was anyone more special then you." Or hotter, but he's so not even going there.

[holo]

[glowingseer]

Smaller Giles! Oh, and he's cleaning his glasses! Cordelia wilts in relief. She almost dives to go nearer to where the smaller Giles is standing.

"It's me!" she says. "Well, I'm not above lying when it comes to, oh I don't know, saving my own life. But Giles! Why am I here? Why are you here? Are we in Sunnydale?"

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[erudite_watcher]

"We are about as far from Sunnydale as it is possible to get. Which isn't completely a bad thing, considering..." While Taxon may be underground it is not the rubble and chaos that Sunnydale is now. Although if his appearance in Taxon had happened a few weeks ago he might have tried to link the two situations.

"We are in a place called Taxon. It's a... well I'm not sure what it is, really. A hodgepodge of people and places we know and many that we don't. Buffy is here, and Xander, Willow, Dawn, Faith and Tara. There are other here too, that seem to have nothing to do with Sunnydale." There was the fact, too, that they weren't all from the the same times, but that was probably too much information for now.

[holo]

[glowingseer]

"Faith and... who?"

Then Cordelia shakes her head. "You know what, I'll ask these super important questions... after I get out of here. This place is a major creepfest, have I mentioned that? So, how?"

[visual]

[tothelibrary]

This is Dawn's first Sunnydale arrival. And it's Cordy! She waves-- because you can take the dork out of Sunnydale and give her amazing taste in shoes, but she'll still be kind of dorky-- and offers a huge smile.

"Cordy! Hi."

[visual]

[glowingseer]

"You... look familiar." It's been years since Cordelia saw any of the Sunnydale crew - well, except for Willow, but this girl... she looks just like...

"Oh my God. You're Buffy's sister!"

[visual]

[tothelibrary]

Wilting a tiny bit, Dawn's smile dims. Just slightly. Not like she's not used to it, after all these years, but still. Clearly, she needs to invent something, or cure the common cold or make MTV play something other than stupid psuedo-reality shows or take over the world.

"Dawn." Tiny eyeroll here. "Also, I like to say Buffy's my sister. Tiny detail, but the framing is much more self-esteem boosting. Welcome to Taxon?"

[visual]

[glowingseer]

"Dawn! There we go. I was just about to say that." She gives Dawn a bright smile. "You look great! You've really grown up."

Okay, so if Buffy's kid sister is here, safe and apparently content enough to talk to her, then...

"Wait a minute. What do you mean 'Welcome to Taxon'?"

[Voice]

[inked_wiccan]

[Willow's doing her best to meditate, a little stressed by the Tara situation and she freezes, hearing that voice.]

Cordelia?

[Voice]

[glowingseer]

...Willow? Willow, is that you? Please tell me it's you!

[Voice]

[inked_wiccan]

Yeah. Yeah, it's me, Cordelia.

You okay? Well...okay given the situation?

[Voice]

[glowingseer]

Okay? OKAY? Okay is me having a nice bubble bath. Or you know, getting ready for bed. In my apartment. In L.A. On Earth. Do I even sound remotely close to okay to you?