She stroked the inside of his forearm with her thumb. Ignoring what she thought might be stiff blood. Day one and already she wanted little more than a hot, long bubble bath. Buffy listened to his verdict upon the stars with a kind of appreciation; she often forgot that the pirate did, in fact, know so much. A different kind of knowing than how Giles knew or Willow knew or Dawn was getting to know. If Jack knew about equatorial zones and that the stars would be different, she decided he must know it because of his worldliness. The traveling and the pirating and the experiencing so very much. Not from books. Hard learned lessons. She could respect that.

"I've been in that village for too long. It keeps slipping my mind that there's a whole rest of a planet attached to Luceti."