But-- I'm not a clock! [she protests, the quietness of a second ago crumbling into desperation. Willow knows rationally that she had to have died, and she's not taking it well. She hasn't exactly had a long time to process it, Mr. Suicidal.] That's my life, and, and their lives, and there's some major stuff going on and what if they get killed because I'm not there? What if Tara gets killed? I just got her back-- [Buffy and Tara both, in different ways.]

[She takes a deep breath. No. No crying over the phone to someone whose name you don't even know, Willow, no matter how catastrophic this is.] M-Maybe you should just stop talking for a second.