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[stillbecoming]

Buffy is consuming delicious pineapple smoothie by the fireplace, and people-watching. And ... other species-watching. She's inclusive. (Is that a balloon?)

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[stillbecoming]

"I was going to say," she says, "sounds like a pretty nice curse...but I'm guessing there's a downside?"

[walksthebounds]

"The part where I've got to keep wandering through hundreds of worlds until I find my way back Home," Jamie agrees, "that would be the downside.

"It could be worse though, it's not like everyone I talk to turns to stone. This place is great for giving you perspective."

[stillbecoming]

"Yeah, that would be." And she pauses. "...Stone?"

[walksthebounds]

"That's another girl I know here. Well, not talks to, looks at without glasses or something. She's cursed too."

Beat.

"Not by the same lot, I think."

Medusa's curse, Jamie thinks, is probably more of a local thing than part of a vast multi-universe conspiracy.

[stillbecoming]

Buffy looks at him.

"You're not stone?" she says. "-- So, glasses?"

[walksthebounds]

"Exactly," says Jamie.

"She's good about catching herself. Well, you would be, I suppose, after a bit of practice."