[ the truth is out before she stops to wonder just how desperate that must make her sound...pining for something she has (she thinks) now been told is not much better to jack than being exiled to a land of only sand and no ocean.
so she is quick to correct herself: ] I mean -- there was a thing and we were...and it stopped before that thing got too thingish. And that's a good thing. [ for all the things she is saying, just as many go unsaid. she continues forward with him and their close contact makes this all extra awkward but...but she doesn't care to leave him walking alone. ] So we can all sleep better at night knowing we dodged the alternative bullet. [ oh, buffy. you haven't been sleeping better at night at all. hell, she hasn't been sleeping. ]
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[ the truth is out before she stops to wonder just how desperate that must make her sound...pining for something she has (she thinks) now been told is not much better to jack than being exiled to a land of only sand and no ocean.
so she is quick to correct herself: ] I mean -- there was a thing and we were...and it stopped before that thing got too thingish. And that's a good thing. [ for all the things she is saying, just as many go unsaid. she continues forward with him and their close contact makes this all extra awkward but...but she doesn't care to leave him walking alone. ] So we can all sleep better at night knowing we dodged the alternative bullet. [ oh, buffy. you haven't been sleeping better at night at all. hell, she hasn't been sleeping. ]