She was looking around trying to find him. Finally hedropped right down on top of her, his hands on her neck, choking her.She gasped for air, she rea...hed for the stake which she had dropped, itwas just out of reach. Buffy ran over and knocked him off her, Faithjumped on top of him. She started pounding at his face as she coughed. Her knuckles were now covered in blood. She reached and managed to grabthe stake and went to drive it into his heart."Stop!"Faith attempted to recover her voice,. She shrugged, making a bitter face. “Dad bought it for me.” Watching the show used to be our thing together, alright? He always called me his little ninja. This is my favorite shirt. So just stop. Please. Stop. You’re just making it worse.“Ahhh, shit,” Samantha cursed, nodding thoughtfully and smiling. “Well yeah, alright. You got a kid sister, yeah?”“Katie,” Emily called over the noise. “She’s eleven.”“Katie, huh. I’ll remember that. Katie,” Samantha said to herself, and pulled the wheel,. . then." I popped back to Fourteenth Century Sagami Provence, Japan and commissioned a tachi from Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, paid for it in gold from California I mined before Sutter built his mill, worked with my grandmother I don't know how many generations removed in 3500 BCE Egypt for 16 months while the sword was being made, flashed back to Japan, picked up the sword, dropped back here, cut off her hand, went back to Japan with the proved sword, showed the sword and hand to Masamune who engraved. The bruise on her cheek, currently hidden behind skin coloured make-up, no longer hurt, but Femaron Baglian had given her several newer reminders. ‘He does encourage me to scan the minds of people around me though,’ Majgen thought, she hoped it would suffice to drown the input from Baglian’s emanations. The man closest to her was envious at Baglian’s probable success with the Red-head, Majgen swiftly moved her mental attention from him to another. A woman a bit to Majgen’s other side was eating.