Opening & mingling!

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YOUR MOM IS AWKWARD

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Same way a good clock stops working when you rip out a cog, I figure.

[.....Sure. Witch. Alright.] Maybe it has to do with the being dead thing.

WELL YOUR SUPERVISOR IS AWKWARD

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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.

I WON'T ARGUE THAT.

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Then fix whatever needs fixing and choose to go back. That old dude said we could.

[A pause. But... yeah, she's getting emotional and this is weird. He has trouble empathizing with people about this kind of thing. Be it his whole acceptance of death, or his guilt complexes leading to some incredible self-absorption... who knows. But he'll concede.]

Sure.

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[Actually that was the right thing to say. Maybe a first for Shinji. She musters herself together, and her emotional turmoil turns into stubborn determination.]

... Yeah, you're right. Whatever they need from me, I can-- I can do that. They just don't understand what I had to do.

[She's assuming she's here for resurrecting Buffy, which is the wrong assumption, but it's the decision she's gotten the most flak over.]

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[ Shinjiro's Charm has increased. ♪ ]

You had your keeper here show up yet? [Warden, whatever.] Maybe they can explain more to get you home.

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[ Wow, that's never happened before. ]

No, not yet. I hope so. [She subtly tenses again.] I'm a little worried that they're going to be a... an ogre or something. --Not a literal ogre, though, um, I guess they could be that, too, who knows?

[Living on the Hellmouth for so long has made her extremely hesitant to assume anything.]

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[ There is a first time for everything. ]

I figure they're just people. If they piss you off, maybe use some've your magic or whatever.

Don't ogres just piss around under bridges and eat goats anyway? [ ...No Shinji that is trolls.] You'll be fine.

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Well, yeah. But I'm thinking that's maybe a little overkill. [She sounds slightly begrudging as she admits this, though.] Magic isn't supposed to be used for trifles, blah blah blah.

Nooo... ogres are more with the smashing and grabbing. Like very rude, big, hairy burglars. [That's okay, Shinji, Willow is clearly making free with the descriptions herself.]