By Robin McKinley
Winner of the Mythopoeic delusion Award for grownup Literature: In an international the place darkness threatens, there's Sunshine . . .
Although it have been regularly abandoned because the Voodoo Wars, there hadn’t been any hassle out on the lake for years. Rae Seddon, nicknamed Sunshine, head baker at her family’s busy and well known café in downtown New Arcadia, wanted a spot to escape from all of the noise and confusion—of the clients and her kin. only for a number of hours. simply to be ready to pay attention herself think.
She knew concerning the Others, after all. all people did. and several other of her family’s most sensible general shoppers have been from SOF—Special different Forces—which were created to house the possibility and the risk of the Others.
She drove out to her family’s outdated lakeside cabin and sat at the porch, swinging her toes and having fun with the silence and the silver moonlight at the water.
She by no means heard them coming. after all, you don’t whilst they’re vampires.
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He stands and he takes all the pain she hits him with and eventually she collapses in his arms and cries. This is the first point since Tara’s death when she has cried; her eyes have gone red and black; she has assaulted gods and killed humans and summoned demons, but she has not cried. Tears are a part of adult sorrow, which is why pseudoadult traditional masculinity suppresses them, because tears can be dried and sorrow moved on from. Xander saves the world by telling Willow the exact truth about his feelings – earlier in the season, Xander has betrayed his own best self by remaining silent.
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Before that, though, her grief takes the form of trying to end the world, its pain and her own. Suicide is, it needs to be pointed out, often an adolescent act. Throughout the season, Buffy has been trying to kill herself, either literally, by jumping off Glory’s tower a second time and by dancing herself into spontaneous combustion, or metaphorically, by accepting a reality in which she is mad but loved by Joyce over one in which she has friends and adult responsibilities. Evil Willow points out to both Buffy and Dawn that their constant moaning about their lives means they are ill-equipped to talk her out of universal destruction – and she has a point.