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[The camera is pretty close to Anya's face from the start. She pulls it out a little, trying to keep herself in frame. It's still daytime, thankfully, but Anya looks pretty pale and queasy, and the large bandage on her forehead certainly doesn't help.]

Whoever created this dimension, you didn't do a very good job. I can tell this isn't my reality, which is a novice mistake, really. Well. Unless this is a Hell dimension you summoned me to.

[She looks around, checking for anything vaguely hellish.]

It certainly doesn't seem like a Hell dimension. Not many Hell dimensions have baseball. And if you did summon me, in case you haven't heard, I've given up on the whole vengeance business. No vengeance at all. 100% vengeance free.

[She waits a few seconds more, hoping she'll just be taken away already.]

I know the Slayer, you know. Or- Well. I knew- It's complicated, and I'd rather not talk about- I also know witches! Powerful witches. Powerful, lesbian witches. So, send me back! Or I'll unleash their lesbian fury upon you.

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Well, I used to be able to get back by myself. Dimensional travelling isn't difficult if you have the power.

"Used to"?

[ Crunch chomp crun--

He pulls a face. It's sugar free candy. Somewhere, someone is grinning smugly, he just knows it, argh! ]

What happened - to your power?

[She just sighs a little. Retelling this story isn't what she would like to do.]

I lost it.

Did you?

[ He spits out the offending "candy." ]

Oh well, that's too bad, isn't it?

[ Brightly: ]

So! I suppose everyone's told you what's what, here in Siren's Port, hmmm?

[The spitting just makes her side eye this entire conversation a little more.]

Most of it. It seems fairly awful.

Doesn't it just.

[ There's a doll sitting on Break's shoulder, which you might have noticed. It's very pretty, apart from the fact that it's got no head (shot off, oops). It stirs and speaks, in a high, squeaky voice: ]

WE'VE ALL BEEN BROUGH HERE BY THIS MYSTERIOUS CORE, NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, WE CAN'T GET OUT, WE CAN'T GO HOME, HAHAHAHAHAHHA!

--yes, yes. That's right, Emily~♥

[ Break pats his doll, then returning his attention once more to Anya. ]

But it occurs to me that a person who has experience with traveling into - and getting out of dimensions, with a talent for vengeance won't be so easily persuaded, am I right?

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[Oh boy.]

Well, I'll try. But I'm not the expert in magic around here.

[ Expert... in magic... ]

Ah.

Would that be the powerful lesbian witch you were describing, just now? Of the lesbian fury?

Yes, that one. There's another one too, but she's not here. Willow is the real expert out of the two, anyway.

I see.

[ Filing that away for future reference. ]

Is she your lady friend?

Not in the lesbian sense, but I know her. And I know the other lesbian too. Her name is Tara, by the way.

[ Willow and Tara, hmmm. He's fairly certain he's seen someone named Willow posting about the network, but no Tara; not as yet, anyway. ]

What's your name?

Anya. What about your name?

Xerxes Break. How d'you do?

Okay. Apart from being stuck in an alternate dimension.

I'll let you get to it then, shall I? Settling in. You might be here for a while.

I'm not sure if you're trying to be positive.

I am being a realist. Here you are, and here you'll stay, until the Core elects to send you back. Or you die.

Or perhaps... until you're able to do something about it.

Do people get sent back often?

People disappear frequently.

Disappear? Then how do we know they get back safely? It seems a very optimistic stance to take on mysterious abductions.

Some people are sent back, and return again. Some remember their time here; some don't. So I suppose it's most accurate to say that some people get home safely. Most, however, seem to disappear without a trace.

This place has far too many mysteries. It's suspicious.

Curiouser and curiouser...

[ Suddenly chirpy: ]

But it's no fun if I tell you everythiiiiiiiiing!

It's not very fun if you tell me nothing either.

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