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[ the locket swings jarringly into action -- like a camera stuck to a pendulum, shuddering back and forth and only occasionally picking up a stern-eyed blonde. ] Ugh. Whose idea was it to glue a webcam onto a necklace--

[ there! steadied. there is first a grimace and then a forced smile and then a flutter of girlish eyelashes. ] First order of business? Those of you still bumming around the Station -- could you tell me how those repairs are coming along? I'm feeling a serious oncoming modernity craving. Like, a gallon of lattes and underwear that doesn't require learning whole new categories of knots.

Second: does anyone know how to make a quick buck outside shilling it for either court? [ she is not a fan of either of the caers. ] Preferably while also maintaining some facade of dignity.

And third and last but absolutely never least: does the name Sunnydale mean anything to anyone? Y'know, anyone other than the someones I've already talked with. [ hey! it's worth asking. doubly so now that it looks like she's here for the long(ish) haul. double ugh. ]

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Barista. Not a terrible idea. I'd have to make sure there were no green aprons involved. Green really isn't my colour.

[ lofty. a little haughty. buffy doesn't make this easy. ]

Hey, if you can afford to be picky, why not? Take pleasure in the small things, right?

Exactly. And I wouldn't say I'm exactly desperate. Not yet. Thank God.

No. This is... nowhere near desperate. Frankly, they seem to have most things pretty well taken care of.

Barring all those pesky ethics concerns. Sure.

Oh, I see.

Doesn't it...bother you?

Am I interested in fighting a war I don't care about for people I don't know? Not really.

But from what I hear, people who help out get some really nice perks. Help a few times, get a few superpowers, go off and do my own thing sounds like a good plan to me.

[ see she's just bitter because her stubbornness made her quit long before the first perk was offered. ]

Yeah. Boons. But it's kinda like taking dirty money, y'know?

[ don't listen to her she's a sore loser. ]

Where I come from, everything is dirty. You learn to live with it, and take advantage of what you can, or you die.

Please promise me you're not about to tell me you live in, like, a dumpster or something--

[ she can't be friends with dumpster dwellers. ]

The word I'd use is "shithole", but dumpster works just as well.

How about Hellhole? Gotta love a good Hellhole.

[ girl you just know it's capitalized when she says it. ]

Yeah, that's a good one, too.

So. Whereabouts is your Hellhole?

My whole world is one.

But I was living in Boston.

[ a low whistle. boston is a long way from sunnydale. or what was once sunnydale. ]

Can I ask what happened?

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