But no, he found it in his pocket after managing to stab himself under afingernail with the hypodermic tip of a mechanical pencil. "Goddammph!"he inf...rmed the universe as he stuck the injured digit in his mouth.I'll probably get tetanus and die, he figured darkly. When he got in front of his door, he sighed, pulled his finger outof his mouth, and inserted the key in the lock. It stuck. Again. "Oh, how fucking predictable," he cursed, and shook the keyviolently until it turned. . Butbefore they could do anything, they were captured. Faith found herselfin a fantasy world where she was a normal girl. She managed to escapeand found herself and Buffy locked in a room inside the Agency.MAU - Slayers - The Man Comes Around2027Faith was tossed into the prison cell, hitting the concrete floor hard. It was dark, like something out of a bad story. "Dammit, why does mylife have to be filled with cliches?" She got up and brushed off thedirt. "Shit, I'm supposed to be good at. “Not that I’ve seen. It’s a weird phenomenon, just start popping up above certain people’s heads, rather suddenly, as of just half an hour ago, in fact. There are reports of this around the globe. Queen Elizabeth has one over her head, as does Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. The Prince of Wales has one, as does Camilla. The Duke of York doesn’t, though. The Pope does. Presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama do, but oddly not Presidents Bill Clinton or Donald Trump. Mike. She’d seized her first chance to run, and I’d found her.I listened silently until she finished speaking, and we sat in silence after. Finally, I said, “Leah, I’m so sorry.”“It’s not your fault.”“No. But still… Can I ask how you wound up with a scumbag like that?”She shrugged sadly. “I was naïve, wanting to believe he was something he wasn’t. How does a gay guy wind up married to a woman?”“Touché. I suppose I wanted to believe I was something I wasn’t.” “Is it going to bother you if I rub one.