"It's a bad habit I picked up, back home. Trouble always rolled into town looking to trade punches with the best in town and that usually happened to be me. There's something to be said about demons and their silly little attempts to compensate for something. Fang size of venom potency or who knows what."

Countered and shot down, she tried another tactic. Buffy slipped her second bishop out, leading it straight across a diagonal and capturing one of the Doctor's knights. She plucked the offending piece off the board and toppled it with the tip of her finger.