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Faith smiled while eating her rice and chicken, with Teriyaki sauce.
"Soo what's going on around here? Where is everyone?"

Silent treatment, of course. That said it all. He took a double turn of the head with the naked statement, though.

"Whoa, naked?"

Oz's eyes sprung open like an owl's. The thought of Willow seeing him naked as Tara bloomed a new level of discomfort.

"Can't I just be, you know, in my boxers or something?"

Oz clintched onto the belt of his pants, waiting, more so hoping that Willow would accept that.

Dawn sighed and thought of what the heck is she doing with herself,all she had been doing lately is stuffing up. She will have to start to pull her socks up and get her act together so Buffy knows she will be fine when she goes overseas. She ate some of her chinese takeaway thoughtfully and decided that she would help train the potentials and find the potentials if there are any word on some being about town that are lost. Dawn was listening to her ipod and was humming softly away to herself.

Willow suppressed a laugh at the look on Oz's face... Tara's dear face.
"You can keep your panties on, Oz." She snickered.
"This won't take long either, don't worry. I know what to do here. I read up on it this morning...don't worry," she repeated.
She sat down and began to chant under her breath, waiting for Oz to disrobe and sit in the circle.

"Quod Erat in Veniendum
Quod Erat Faciendum
Inter Partes
Homo nudus c** nuda iacebat
Deflagrate muri tempi et intervallia!
Vita mutatur, non tollitur vice versa
Per usum meum adsumate signo tuto uto care
Membrum Virile
Requiscat Tara in Pace"

The lady entered the huge building, timid at first, but after a hefty sniff, her demeanor became more comfortable. Her eyes admired the home of Miss Summers. Then they glistened a bit as they caught the stairs leading to the second floor, almost focused. She journeyed on and sat at the couch.

Her posture remained proper. Her hands plotted onto her lap, her legs crossed delicately and decently. Her back stayed straight. Almost perfect. She angled her position toward Miss Summers. Her eyes focused on her hands for a moment. She lightly rubbed her fingers in the absences of her thought.

“I do not perform rituals, Miss Summers. I simply….am.” She caught another glance at the man accompanying Miss Summers, either trying to remember his face, or maybe trying to hide something else.

“I will explain my problem. Someone very important to me died. She was like a mother, an innovator to me. I would have done anything to be as close to her as I could. I respected her and her ‘work’ my whole life. But it has been brought to my attention that her soul lingers at a different plane.”

Her hands clinched upon the outskirts of her dress. A new demeanor misted the outline of her body, practically changing the identity before Miss Summers and her male companion. Her words fluttered with mystery as she continued on. Not once would she look up to them. Her eyes remained focus on her hands, still clinching onto her dress.

“They did this to her.” The soft serene sound of her voice shifted to a raspy anger tone that could only explain hurt from losing someone so dear. Her hands stopped fiddling with the dress. They rested properly on her lap, once again. The lady finally looked up to Miss Summers.

Willow continued the chant as she lit 5 white candles at each of the star's points.

"Quod Erat in Veniendum
Quod Erat Faciendum
Inter Partes
Homo nudus c** nuda iacebat
Deflagrate muri tempi et intervallia!
Vita mutatur, non tollitur vice versa
Per usum meum adsumate signo tuto uto care
Membrum Virile
Requiscat Tara in Pace"

She sat at the circle's edge, taking care to only touch it, and not enter.
Looking into Oz's eyes, she held out her hands, palm forward, as if about to wave goodbye.
"I need you to place your hands against mine. Do not push out of the circle. You must be inside, and I am to remain outside."
Willow's voice deepened, and her eyes began to darken as she intoned, "Guardian, angel of the stars,
I call upon you, grand protective angel,
to help this man, to defend him.
He is without defense from this rancorous attack,
directed against all the levels by its being,
combatant of the right causes against the evil,
and malicious of the guard without defenses.
I implore you, utilize your force to destroy and cut down this evil,
to purge it thanks to your crowned fire and purifier,
to clean this iniquity,
in the name of the one who is all,
Thus is it! ".
She was sweating heavily, feeling a deep pressure against her eyes.

Someone was seeing. Someone was trying to peek. And this was infuriating Willow beyond imagining.
Her eyes lost all color save the deepest of black, and gone were the red flames of color in her hair. All was dark.
Willow disappeared, and that one took over.
She threw her head back, and bellowed,"I call upon Amaymon king of the east, Gorson king of the south, Zimimar king of the north, Goap king and prince of the west, that thee shall attend my words. An unknown liege is upon me and hath refused to take their proper leave. Go thee now Amaymon, Gorson, Zimmar and Goap unto Baell and plead my request that this unknown spirit be bound unto mine word and that no resting place may they take, not in the sun, the moon, the twelve signs, the clouds, the air, the sea, the man nor woman nor beast nor earth nor that from it. Let this unknown spirit be bound unto mine word that to ignore shall they suffer the punishment of pain and great suffering. I conjure and constrain the unknown spirit that now immediately thou be obedient unto me, at all times hereafter, and to those words of mine pronounced, according to thine oath and promise: else let the great curse of the great and eternal virtue of the highest, the anger of the great and eternal virtue of the highest, the shadow and darkness of everlasting condemnation be upon thee unknown spirit for ever and ever, and for thy great disobedience thou are worthy to be condemned. "
Taking a deep breath, she looked again at Oz.
"All manner of things will be well."
She struggled desperately to regain herself. The spell was done. In moments, Oz should be himself.
She kept her hands pressed against his, waiting to feel the change. The bond must not be broken until the spell was complete.

Phoenix pointed to the plates of food.
"Hungry?", she asked Dawn.
"Your sister bought some damn good chinese food. Sorry about the lack of spring rolls," she mumbled as she polished off the last of them - her 6th.

"Well, did you get the boots we bought you? In the closet?"
Phoenix asked, then stood and began to clean up.