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[faithful_slayer]

She doesn't cry. She should, maybe. Feels like it, anyway. But she doesn't, not even a single tear.

It's a strange feeling. It's not anger, or even guilt, just a sense of...emptiness. Crushing, suffocating emptiness, a hollow resignation that goes beyond just being sad.

It's mourning, she realizes, as she forces herself to go about the minutiae

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[eternal_boy]

There is, however, a knock on the door.

[faithful_slayer]

"Yeah?"

Her voice is flat, uncaring, and she doesn't so much as look that way, or try to see who it is.

Honestly, she doesn't care.

[eternal_boy]

"How were the cookies?"

Still behind the door, because he's not rude.

[faithful_slayer]

"Fine. Great. Wonderful. Come in, Nick, if you want."

[just_a_soldier]

Knocking might force her out of her position on the couch. Especially the kind of knock that sounds like it might be followed by the words 'Come out now or I'll knock the door down.'

[faithful_slayer]

That'll get results, sure enough.

Anyway, due to the wonders of Millitime, Faith's talked to Nick, so she's feeling a little better when she opens the door and sees Aeryn on the other side.

"Aeryn! Hey...what's up?"

[just_a_soldier]

"Present." She said gruffly, holding up a package roughly wrapped in what appears to be newspaper. Hey, she's not perfect. It contains a black sweater, with the word 'security' in white stitched on it and a few stray snowflakes. Bar had been helping her with the English.

[faithful_slayer]

Faith blinks, and then smiles.

"Hey, thanks. Come in, I'll get yours, it's in my room..."

She disappears into her bedroom for a minute, then returns, holding a package wrapped in very dark red paper.

Knife, anyone?

"I wasn't sure if you had them, still, where you're from..."

[rebelheartalien]

Michael knows something's wrong, when he knocks on the door. That's why he doesn't just power the lock open and go in.

[faithful_slayer]

"It's not locked."

Faith's voice is flat, disinterested. It's a new thing she's trying.

[rebelheartalien]

He hasn't heard her like that in months, and he's through the door in seconds.

"Faith? What happened?"

[faithful_slayer]

"Had a bit of a falling out with a friend." Faith glances up at him, then back at the wall. "Over the Slayer thing. Over me quitting."