Buffy blinks. "Well, besides the fact that I'm talking to a pregnant vampire who's drinking vitamin-enriched mineral blood, not all that much, but I'm thrown for at least a little bit of loop by the fact that you're apparently friends with --" She closes her mouth around the words my ex and reopens it to say, "somebody I know."

She looks down. There are tiny kitten teeth fastened around her index finger. She shakes the finger, gently.